A colleague of mine found that multicasts with a ttl of 0
can be sent on the wire. This happens if the sender doesn't
belong to the destination multicast group.
With the following the multicast ttl is respected whether
or not the sender belongs to the destination multicast group.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
net/ipv4/route.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index cb76e3c..bf25cf5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -2249,8 +2249,7 @@ static inline int __mkroute_output(struct rtable **result,
}
if (flags & (RTCF_BROADCAST | RTCF_MULTICAST)) {
rth->rt_spec_dst = fl->fl4_src;
- if (flags & RTCF_LOCAL &&
- !(dev_out->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK)) {
+ if (!(dev_out->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK)) {
rth->u.dst.output = ip_mc_output;
RT_CACHE_STAT_INC(out_slow_mc);
}
--
Arthur
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