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| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c index 471ed24aabae..14ecdaf06bf7 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c @@ -1218,7 +1218,14 @@ static void ndisc_router_discovery(struct sk_buff *skb) if (rt) rt6_set_expires(rt, jiffies + (HZ * lifetime)); if (ra_msg->icmph.icmp6_hop_limit) { - in6_dev->cnf.hop_limit = ra_msg->icmph.icmp6_hop_limit; + /* Only set hop_limit on the interface if it is higher than + * the current hop_limit. + */ + if (in6_dev->cnf.hop_limit < ra_msg->icmph.icmp6_hop_limit) { + in6_dev->cnf.hop_limit = ra_msg->icmph.icmp6_hop_limit; + } else { + ND_PRINTK(2, warn, "RA: Got route advertisement with lower hop_limit than current\n"); + } if (rt) dst_metric_set(&rt->dst, RTAX_HOPLIMIT, ra_msg->icmph.icmp6_hop_limit); |