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[IPV6]: Try not to send icmp to anycast address.
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Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki committed Dec 21, 2005
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16 changes: 14 additions & 2 deletions net/ipv6/icmp.c
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Expand Up @@ -328,8 +328,10 @@ void icmpv6_send(struct sk_buff *skb, int type, int code, __u32 info,
iif = skb->dev->ifindex;

/*
* Must not send if we know that source is Anycast also.
* for now we don't know that.
* Must not send error if the source does not uniquely
* identify a single node (RFC2463 Section 2.4).
* We check unspecified / multicast addresses here,
* and anycast addresses will be checked later.
*/
if ((addr_type == IPV6_ADDR_ANY) || (addr_type & IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST)) {
LIMIT_NETDEBUG(KERN_DEBUG "icmpv6_send: addr_any/mcast source\n");
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err = ip6_dst_lookup(sk, &dst, &fl);
if (err)
goto out;

/*
* We won't send icmp if the destination is known
* anycast.
*/
if (((struct rt6_info *)dst)->rt6i_flags & RTF_ANYCAST) {
LIMIT_NETDEBUG(KERN_DEBUG "icmpv6_send: acast source\n");
goto out_dst_release;
}

if ((err = xfrm_lookup(&dst, &fl, sk, 0)) < 0)
goto out;

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