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Commit 66aa3e29 authored by D.S. Ljungmark's avatar D.S. Ljungmark Committed by Thierry Strudel
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UPSTREAM: ipv6: Don't reduce hop limit for an interface


A local route may have a lower hop_limit set than global routes do.

RFC 3756, Section 4.2.7, "Parameter Spoofing"

>   1.  The attacker includes a Current Hop Limit of one or another small
>       number which the attacker knows will cause legitimate packets to
>       be dropped before they reach their destination.

>   As an example, one possible approach to mitigate this threat is to
>   ignore very small hop limits.  The nodes could implement a
>   configurable minimum hop limit, and ignore attempts to set it below
>   said limit.

Bug: 29409847

Signed-off-by: default avatarD.S. Ljungmark <ljungmark@modio.se>
Acked-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 6fd99094)

Change-Id: I24ee5723e4bcb3fbdbf4308531ab58e9ff215e82
parent fae92068
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