This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: send unsolicited neighbour advertisements to all-nodes
to the 3.4-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-send-unsolicited-neighbour-advertisements-to-all-nodes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 619bfd7ed4d4273c58ab898c951206f05973013f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 16:18:41 +0000
Subject: ipv6: send unsolicited neighbour advertisements to all-nodes
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 60713a0ca7fd6651b951cc1b4dbd528d1fc0281b ]
As documented in RFC4861 (Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6) 7.2.6.,
unsolicited neighbour advertisements should be sent to the all-nodes
multicast address.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ static void ndisc_send_unsol_na(struct n
{
struct inet6_dev *idev;
struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa;
- struct in6_addr mcaddr;
+ struct in6_addr mcaddr = IN6ADDR_LINKLOCAL_ALLNODES_INIT;
idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
if (!idev)
@@ -601,7 +601,6 @@ static void ndisc_send_unsol_na(struct n
read_lock_bh(&idev->lock);
list_for_each_entry(ifa, &idev->addr_list, if_list) {
- addrconf_addr_solict_mult(&ifa->addr, &mcaddr);
ndisc_send_na(dev, NULL, &mcaddr, &ifa->addr,
/*router=*/ !!idev->cnf.forwarding,
/*solicited=*/ false, /*override=*/ true,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.4/ipv6-send-unsolicited-neighbour-advertisements-to-all-nodes.patch
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