This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: Remove hoplimit initialization to -1
to the 2.6.38-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipv6-remove-hoplimit-initialization-to-1.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From c27f8c1fe27db3f30f9c9313158007e5444c802a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Egerer <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:56:02 +0000
Subject: ipv6: Remove hoplimit initialization to -1
From: Thomas Egerer <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit e965c05dabdabb85af0187952ccd75e43995c4b3 ]
The changes introduced with git-commit a02e4b7d ("ipv6: Demark default
hoplimit as zero.") missed to remove the hoplimit initialization. As a
result, ipv6_get_mtu interprets the return value of dst_metric_raw
(-1) as 255 and answers ping6 with this hoplimit. This patche removes
the line such that ping6 is answered with the hoplimit value
configured via sysctl.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Egerer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/ipv6/route.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1970,7 +1970,6 @@ struct rt6_info *addrconf_dst_alloc(stru
rt->dst.output = ip6_output;
rt->rt6i_dev = net->loopback_dev;
rt->rt6i_idev = idev;
- dst_metric_set(&rt->dst, RTAX_HOPLIMIT, -1);
rt->dst.obsolete = -1;
rt->rt6i_flags = RTF_UP | RTF_NONEXTHOP;
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