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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
To: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-kernel@sw.starentnetworks.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net,
	sakkiped@starentnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [Lksctp-developers] [PATCH] IPv6: ipv6_addr_type() doesn't know about RFC4193 addresses
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:59:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A8E0E8.6080209@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18087.62656.490978.692574@zeus.sw.starentnetworks.com>

Dave Johnson wrote:
> David Miller writes:
>> Contrarily, there may be ipv6_addr_type() call sites that really
>> do want to reject rfc4193 addresses.
> 
> A quick look through the callers and only these functions should be
> effected, they check either RESERVED or UNICAST from ipv6_addr_type():
> 
> net/ipv6/addrconf.c:                ipv6_dev_get_saddr()
> net/ipv6/exthdrs.c:                 ipv6_dest_hao()   
> net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c:              ip6_tnl_set_cap()
> net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_REJECT.c:   send_reset()
> net/ipv6/route.c:                   ip6_route_add()
> net/ipv6/route.c:                   ip6_pkt_drop()
> net/sctp/ipv6.c:                    sctp_v6_available()
> net/sctp/ipv6.c:                    sctp_v6_addr_valid()
> 

Well, it's not just for SCTP.  ULA address are considered of Global scope.
See this message
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118492205915816&w=2

-vlad

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-26 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-25 23:49 [PATCH] IPv6: ipv6_addr_type() doesn't know about RFC4193 addresses Dave Johnson
2007-07-26  0:12 ` David Miller
2007-07-26  1:11   ` Dave Johnson
2007-07-26 17:59     ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2007-07-26 18:37   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-07-26 17:21 ` Simon Arlott
2007-07-26 18:00   ` Dave Johnson
2007-07-26 18:10     ` [Lksctp-developers] " Vlad Yasevich
2007-07-26 18:06   ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2007-07-26 18:34 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-07-31  0:21   ` David Miller

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