From: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: albertpretorius@yahoo.co.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org
Subject: Re: IPV6 loopback bound socket succeeds connecting to remote host
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:31:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0EF840.2020108@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101216.121805.59690737.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote, at 12/17/2010 04:18 AM:
> Your approach will only modify socket based route handling, it will
> not handle the ipv6 forwarding case which as per the quoted RFC
> sections must be handled too.
For the ipv6 forwarding case, we have done the check in ip6_forward().
493 int addrtype = ipv6_addr_type(&hdr->saddr);
494
495 /* This check is security critical. */
496 if (addrtype == IPV6_ADDR_ANY ||
497 addrtype & (IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST | IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))
498 goto error;
--
Best Regards
-----
Shan Wei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-20 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-29 10:55 IPV6 loopback bound socket succeeds connecting to remote host Albert Pretorius
2010-12-01 8:18 ` Shan Wei
2010-12-02 7:45 ` Albert Pretorius
2010-12-02 8:41 ` Shan Wei
2010-12-16 20:18 ` David Miller
2010-12-20 6:31 ` Shan Wei [this message]
2010-12-20 6:43 ` David Miller
2010-12-22 7:06 ` Shan Wei
2010-12-29 16:53 ` Albert Pretorius
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