Commit c457338d authored by Brian Haley's avatar Brian Haley Committed by David S. Miller

ipv6: drop packets when source address is multicast

RFC 4291 Section 2.7 says Multicast addresses must not be used as source
addresses in IPv6 packets - drop them on input so we don't process the
packet further.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: default avatarKumar Sanghvi <divinekumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 10953db8
......@@ -111,6 +111,14 @@ int ipv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt
ipv6_addr_loopback(&hdr->daddr))
goto err;
/*
* RFC4291 2.7
* Multicast addresses must not be used as source addresses in IPv6
* packets or appear in any Routing header.
*/
if (ipv6_addr_is_multicast(&hdr->saddr))
goto err;
skb->transport_header = skb->network_header + sizeof(*hdr);
IP6CB(skb)->nhoff = offsetof(struct ipv6hdr, nexthdr);
......
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