[IPV6]: Send ICMPv6 error on scope violations.

When an IPv6 router is forwarding a packet with a link-local scope source
address off-link, RFC 4007 requires it to send an ICMPv6 destination
unreachable with code 2 ("not neighbor"), but Linux doesn't. Fix below.

Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index f508171..4704b5f 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -463,10 +463,17 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb)
                 */
                if (xrlim_allow(dst, 1*HZ))
                        ndisc_send_redirect(skb, n, target);
-       } else if (ipv6_addr_type(&hdr->saddr)&(IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST|IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK
-                                               |IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) {
+       } else {
+               int addrtype = ipv6_addr_type(&hdr->saddr);
+
                /* This check is security critical. */
-               goto error;
+               if (addrtype & (IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST|IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))
+                       goto error;
+               if (addrtype & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) {
+                       icmpv6_send(skb, ICMPV6_DEST_UNREACH,
+                               ICMPV6_NOT_NEIGHBOUR, 0, skb->dev);
+                       goto error;
+               }
        }
 
        if (skb->len > dst_mtu(dst)) {