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Commit 0553c891 authored by Krishna Kumar's avatar Krishna Kumar Committed by David S. Miller
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ip6_pol_route panic: Do not allow VLAN on loopback



Several tests in the ipv6 routing code check IFF_LOOPBACK, and
allowing stacking such as VLAN'ing on top of loopback results in a
netdevice which reports IFF_LOOPBACK but really isn't the loopback
device.

Instead of spamming the ipv6 routing code with even more special tests,
simply disallow VLAN over loopback.

The result of this patch is:

# modprobe 8021q
# vconfig add lo 43
ERROR: trying to add VLAN #43 to IF -:lo:-  error: Operation not supported

Signed-off-by: default avatarKrishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 70dda99c
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