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[IPV6]: order addresses by scope

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If IPv6 addresses are ordered by scope, then ipv6_dev_get_saddr() can
break-out of the device addr_list for() loop when the candidate source
address scope is less than the destination address scope.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Brian Haley 2006-07-10 15:25:51 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 155dbfd884
commit e55ffac601
1 changed files with 21 additions and 3 deletions
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net/ipv6/addrconf.c
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@ -508,6 +508,25 @@ void inet6_ifa_finish_destroy(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
kfree(ifp);
}
static void
ipv6_link_dev_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
{
struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa, **ifap;
/*
* Each device address list is sorted in order of scope -
* global before linklocal.
*/
for (ifap = &idev->addr_list; (ifa = *ifap) != NULL;
ifap = &ifa->if_next) {
if (ifp->scope > ifa->scope)
break;
}
ifp->if_next = *ifap;
*ifap = ifp;
}
/* On success it returns ifp with increased reference count */
static struct inet6_ifaddr *
@ -573,8 +592,7 @@ ipv6_add_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr *addr, int pfxlen,
write_lock(&idev->lock);
/* Add to inet6_dev unicast addr list. */
ifa->if_next = idev->addr_list;
idev->addr_list = ifa;
ipv6_link_dev_addr(idev, ifa);
#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY
if (ifa->flags&IFA_F_TEMPORARY) {
@ -987,7 +1005,7 @@ int ipv6_dev_get_saddr(struct net_device *daddr_dev,
continue;
} else if (score.scope < hiscore.scope) {
if (score.scope < daddr_scope)
continue;
break; /* addresses sorted by scope */
else {
score.rule = 2;
goto record_it;