In commit 93a714d6b53d ("multicast: Extend ip address command to enable
multicast group join/leave on") we added a new flag IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN
to make user able to add multicast address on ethernet interface.
This works for IPv4, but not for IPv6. See the inet6_addr_add code.
static int inet6_addr_add()
{
...
if (cfg->ifa_flags & IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN) {
ipv6_mc_config(net->ipv6.mc_autojoin_sk, true...)
}
ifp = ipv6_add_addr(idev, cfg, true, extack); <- always fail with maddr
if (!IS_ERR(ifp)) {
...
} else if (cfg->ifa_flags & IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN) {
ipv6_mc_config(net->ipv6.mc_autojoin_sk, false...)
}
}
But in ipv6_add_addr() it will check the address type and reject multicast
address directly. So this feature is never worked for IPv6.
We should not remove the multicast address check totally in ipv6_add_addr(),
but could accept multicast address only when IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN flag supplied.
v2: update commit description
Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <ji...@redhat.com>
Fixes: 93a714d6b53d ("multicast: Extend ip address command to enable multicast
group join/leave on")
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index dc73888c7859..ced995f3fec4 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -1045,7 +1045,8 @@ ipv6_add_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct ifa6_config
*cfg,
int err = 0;
if (addr_type == IPV6_ADDR_ANY ||
- addr_type & IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST ||
+ (addr_type & IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST &&
+ !(cfg->ifa_flags & IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN)) ||
(!(idev->dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) &&
!netif_is_l3_master(idev->dev) &&
addr_type & IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))
--
2.19.2
