From: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 14:03:54 -0800
> Allow a process bound to a VRF to connect to a linklocal address.
> Currently, this fails because of a mismatch between the scope of the
> linklocal address and the sk_bound_dev_if inherited by the VRF binding:
> $ ssh -6 fe80::70b8:cff:fedd:ead8%eth1
> ssh: connect to host fe80::70b8:cff:fedd:ead8%eth1 port 22: Invalid
> argument
>
> Relax the scope check to allow the socket to be bound to the same L3
> device as the scope id.
>
> This makes ipv6 linklocal consistent with other relaxed checks enabled
> by commits 1ff23beebdd3 ("net: l3mdev: Allow send on enslaved interface")
> and 7bb387c5ab12a ("net: Allow IP_MULTICAST_IF to set index to L3 slave").
>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Applied, thanks David.
