'home' option designates a IPv6 address as "home address" as
defined in RFC 6275. This option should be available only for
IPv6 addresses, as correctly stated in the manpage.
However it is possible to set home on IPv4 addresses, too:
$ ip link add dummy0 type dummy
$ ip -4 addr add 192.168.1.1 dev dummy0 home
$ ip a
1: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen
1000
link/ether 1a:6d:c6:96:ca:f8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.1/32 scope global home dummy0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Fix this adding a check on the protocol family before setting
IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS flag.
Fixes: bac735c53a36d ("enabled to manipulate the flags of IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS or
IFA_F_NODAD from ip.")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Claudi <acla...@redhat.com>
---
ip/ipaddress.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ip/ipaddress.c b/ip/ipaddress.c
index d157f72784a21..e1b0e2224a768 100644
--- a/ip/ipaddress.c
+++ b/ip/ipaddress.c
@@ -2248,7 +2248,10 @@ static int ipaddr_modify(int cmd, int flags, int argc,
char **argv)
if (set_lifetime(&preferred_lft, *argv))
invarg("preferred_lft value", *argv);
} else if (strcmp(*argv, "home") == 0) {
- ifa_flags |= IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS;
+ if (req.ifa.ifa_family == AF_INET6)
+ ifa_flags |= IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS;
+ else
+ fprintf(stderr, "Warning: home option can be
set only for IPv6 addresses\n");
} else if (strcmp(*argv, "nodad") == 0) {
if (req.ifa.ifa_family == AF_INET6)
ifa_flags |= IFA_F_NODAD;
--
2.20.1
