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| author | Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> | 2015-07-30 14:28:42 +0800 |
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| committer | Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> | 2016-03-24 09:59:05 +0000 |
| commit | efd019f933a538e4147aee811e6b2dd7a1aafdef (patch) | |
| tree | 0b2faba50264a68652f8eb599b29dcb051fe863d /Documentation | |
| parent | c548b32aa079ef8276362277109cbd4b58bd202d (diff) | |
net/ipv6: add sysctl option accept_ra_min_hop_limit
commit 8013d1d7eafb0589ca766db6b74026f76b7f5cb4 upstream.
Commit 6fd99094de2b ("ipv6: Don't reduce hop limit for an interface")
disabled accept hop limit from RA if it is smaller than the current hop
limit for security stuff. But this behavior kind of break the RFC definition.
RFC 4861, 6.3.4. Processing Received Router Advertisements
A Router Advertisement field (e.g., Cur Hop Limit, Reachable Time,
and Retrans Timer) may contain a value denoting that it is
unspecified. In such cases, the parameter should be ignored and the
host should continue using whatever value it is already using.
If the received Cur Hop Limit value is non-zero, the host SHOULD set
its CurHopLimit variable to the received value.
So add sysctl option accept_ra_min_hop_limit to let user choose the minimum
hop limit value they can accept from RA. And set default to 1 to meet RFC
standards.
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
- added missing DEVCONF_* as suggested by Yoshfuji so that uapi contains
the same values as mainline
- adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index ab42c95f9985..36aa39eee48f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1210,6 +1210,14 @@ accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled. disabled if accept_ra is disabled. +accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER + Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement. + + Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this + variable shall be ignored. + + Default: 1 + accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement. |