[IPV6]: Fix IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS getsockopt().
authorBrian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:09:49 +0000 (17:09 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:48:25 +0000 (16:48 -0800)
> Relevant standard (RFC 3493) notes:
>
>    The IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS option may be used with getsockopt() to
>    determine the hop limit value that the system will use for subsequent
>    unicast packets sent via that socket.
>
> I don't reckon -1 could be the hop limit value.

-1 means un-initialized.

> IMHO, the value from
> case 1 (if socket is connected to some destination), otherwise case 2
> (if bound to a scope interface) or ultimately the default hop limit
> ought to be returned instead, as it will be most often correct, while
> the current behavior is always wrong, unless setsockopt() has been used
> first. I don't if some people may think doing a route lookup in
> getsockopt might be overly expensive, but at least the two other cases
> should be ok, particularly the last one.

The following patch seems to work for me, but this code has behaved this
way for a while, so don't know if it will break any existing apps.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c

index 1eafcfc95e81d41f5b4459f22a3da50ce8753f8f..352690e2ab8280ec89019697cca70d48ada6e48c 100644 (file)
@@ -978,12 +978,27 @@ static int do_ipv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
                break;
 
        case IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS:
-               val = np->hop_limit;
-               break;
-
        case IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS:
-               val = np->mcast_hops;
+       {
+               struct dst_entry *dst;
+
+               if (optname == IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS)
+                       val = np->hop_limit;
+               else
+                       val = np->mcast_hops;
+
+               dst = sk_dst_get(sk);
+               if (dst) {
+                       if (val < 0)
+                               val = dst_metric(dst, RTAX_HOPLIMIT);
+                       if (val < 0)
+                               val = ipv6_get_hoplimit(dst->dev);
+                       dst_release(dst);
+               }
+               if (val < 0)
+                       val = ipv6_devconf.hop_limit;
                break;
+       }
 
        case IPV6_MULTICAST_LOOP:
                val = np->mc_loop;