This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
IPv6: Fix not join all-router mcast group when forwarding set.
to the 3.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipv6-fix-not-join-all-router-mcast-group-when-forwarding-set.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 1f8356cc3f041f2599f53750e46eabcfef63cffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Li Wei <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:45:17 +0000
Subject: IPv6: Fix not join all-router mcast group when forwarding set.
From: Li Wei <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit d6ddef9e641d1229d4ec841dc75ae703171c3e92 ]
When forwarding was set and a new net device is register,
we need add this device to the all-router mcast group.
Signed-off-by: Li Wei <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -434,6 +434,10 @@ static struct inet6_dev * ipv6_add_dev(s
/* Join all-node multicast group */
ipv6_dev_mc_inc(dev, &in6addr_linklocal_allnodes);
+ /* Join all-router multicast group if forwarding is set */
+ if (ndev->cnf.forwarding && dev && (dev->flags & IFF_MULTICAST))
+ ipv6_dev_mc_inc(dev, &in6addr_linklocal_allrouters);
+
return ndev;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.2/ipv6-fix-not-join-all-router-mcast-group-when-forwarding-set.patch
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