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ipv6: Allow IPv4-mapped address as next-hop

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Made kernel accept IPv6 routes with IPv4-mapped address as next-hop.

It is possible to configure IP interfaces with IPv4-mapped addresses, and
one can add IPv6 routes for IPv4-mapped destinations/prefixes, yet prior
to this fix the kernel returned an EINVAL when attempting to add an IPv6
route with an IPv4-mapped address as a nexthop/gateway.

RFC 4798 (a proposed standard RFC) uses IPv4-mapped addresses as nexthops,
thus in order to support that type of address configuration the kernel
needs to allow IPv4-mapped addresses as nexthops.

Signed-off-by: Erik Nordmark <nordmark@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Gilligan <gilligan@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Erik Nordmark 2016-12-03 20:57:09 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 3c839744b3
commit 96d5822c1d
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -2000,8 +2000,11 @@ static struct rt6_info *ip6_route_info_create(struct fib6_config *cfg)
It is very good, but in some (rare!) circumstances
(SIT, PtP, NBMA NOARP links) it is handy to allow
some exceptions. --ANK
We allow IPv4-mapped nexthops to support RFC4798-type
addressing
*/
if (!(gwa_type & IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST))
if (!(gwa_type & (IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST |
IPV6_ADDR_MAPPED)))
goto out;
if (cfg->fc_table) {