Commit 02127bdf authored by Hangbin Liu's avatar Hangbin Liu Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6/addrconf: allow adding multicast addr if IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN is set

[ Upstream commit f17f7648 ]

In commit 93a714d6 ("multicast: Extend ip address command to enable
multicast group join/leave on") we added a new flag IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN
to make user able to add multicast address on ethernet interface.

This works for IPv4, but not for IPv6. See the inet6_addr_add code.

static int inet6_addr_add()
{
	...
	if (cfg->ifa_flags & IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN) {
		ipv6_mc_config(net->ipv6.mc_autojoin_sk, true...)
	}

	ifp = ipv6_add_addr(idev, cfg, true, extack); <- always fail with maddr
	if (!IS_ERR(ifp)) {
		...
	} else if (cfg->ifa_flags & IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN) {
		ipv6_mc_config(net->ipv6.mc_autojoin_sk, false...)
	}
}

But in ipv6_add_addr() it will check the address type and reject multicast
address directly. So this feature is never worked for IPv6.

We should not remove the multicast address check totally in ipv6_add_addr(),
but could accept multicast address only when IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN flag supplied.

v2: update commit description

Fixes: 93a714d6 ("multicast: Extend ip address command to enable multicast group join/leave on")
Reported-by: default avatarJianlin Shi <jishi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent a1407b26
......@@ -995,7 +995,8 @@ ipv6_add_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct ifa6_config *cfg,
int err = 0;
if (addr_type == IPV6_ADDR_ANY ||
addr_type & IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST ||
(addr_type & IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST &&
!(cfg->ifa_flags & IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN)) ||
(!(idev->dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) &&
addr_type & IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))
return ERR_PTR(-EADDRNOTAVAIL);
......
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