3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 20314092c1b41894d8c181bf9aa6f022be2416aa ]

v2:
a) moved before multicast source address check
b) changed comment to netdev style

Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[email protected]>
Cc: Erik Hugne <[email protected]>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -111,6 +111,15 @@ int ipv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct
            ipv6_addr_loopback(&hdr->daddr))
                goto err;
 
+       /* RFC4291 2.7
+        * Nodes must not originate a packet to a multicast address whose scope
+        * field contains the reserved value 0; if such a packet is received, it
+        * must be silently dropped.
+        */
+       if (ipv6_addr_is_multicast(&hdr->daddr) &&
+           IPV6_ADDR_MC_SCOPE(&hdr->daddr) == 0)
+               goto err;
+
        /*
         * RFC4291 2.7
         * Multicast addresses must not be used as source addresses in IPv6


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