ipv6: send unsolicited neighbour advertisements to all-nodes
authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Tue, 6 Nov 2012 16:18:41 +0000 (16:18 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 21:18:52 +0000 (16:18 -0500)
As documented in RFC4861 (Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6) 7.2.6.,
unsolicited neighbour advertisements should be sent to the all-nodes
multicast address.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/ndisc.c

index ff36194a71aa7dd0fe0f707cff80afd83e40102e..2edce30ef7338cdf1916eef98b353c7dbbc7bcda 100644 (file)
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ static void ndisc_send_unsol_na(struct net_device *dev)
 {
        struct inet6_dev *idev;
        struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa;
-       struct in6_addr mcaddr;
+       struct in6_addr mcaddr = IN6ADDR_LINKLOCAL_ALLNODES_INIT;
 
        idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
        if (!idev)
@@ -543,7 +543,6 @@ static void ndisc_send_unsol_na(struct net_device *dev)
 
        read_lock_bh(&idev->lock);
        list_for_each_entry(ifa, &idev->addr_list, if_list) {
-               addrconf_addr_solict_mult(&ifa->addr, &mcaddr);
                ndisc_send_na(dev, NULL, &mcaddr, &ifa->addr,
                              /*router=*/ !!idev->cnf.forwarding,
                              /*solicited=*/ false, /*override=*/ true,