From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] IPv6: don't forward unspecified frames Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:50:53 -0800 Message-ID: <20100223105053.77c2a122@nehalam> References: <20100222173153.79190176@nehalam> <4B836385.8090509@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Shan Wei Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:36665 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751422Ab0BWSvE (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:51:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B836385.8090509@cn.fujitsu.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:11:33 +0800 Shan Wei wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote, at 02/23/2010 09:31 AM: > > This showed up during UNH IPv6 conformance tests. It appears kernel > > incorrectly forwards packets with unspecified source address. > > Which case? Is it about spec.p2#18 of IPv6 Ready Logo Phase 2? > I don't see the phenomenon from spec.p2#18 case. > > > This looks like the place to fix this, but still not sure and have > > no easy way to test it since ping6 won't send packet with unspecified > > source address. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger > > Kernel is coincident with the spec, see following commit. > Never mind. I could not reproduce the problem, with a program that sends ICMPV6 echo through AF_PACKET. UNH reran the test, and the kernel is fine. Looks like a tester problem.