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authorIngo Molnar2008-06-23 11:53:03 +0200
committerIngo Molnar2008-06-23 11:53:03 +0200
commit009b9fc98ddd83f9139fdabb12c0d7a8535d5421 (patch)
treef7d3e182407d2ebe50a9b8db6361ac910027a1cf /net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
parentx86: fixup the fallout of the bitops changes (diff)
parentSlab: Fix memory leak in fallback_alloc() (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/threadinfo
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/ip6_input.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_input.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
index 4e5c8615832c..17eb48b8e329 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ int ipv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt
if (hdr->version != 6)
goto err;
+ /*
+ * RFC4291 2.5.3
+ * A packet received on an interface with a destination address
+ * of loopback must be dropped.
+ */
+ if (!(dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) &&
+ ipv6_addr_loopback(&hdr->daddr))
+ goto err;
+
skb->transport_header = skb->network_header + sizeof(*hdr);
IP6CB(skb)->nhoff = offsetof(struct ipv6hdr, nexthdr);