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When proxying IPv6 NDP requests, the adverts to the initial multicast solicits are correct and working. On the other hand, when later a reachability confirmation is requested (on unicast), no reply is sent. This causes the neighbor entry expiring on the sending node, which is mostly a non-issue, as a new multicast request is sent. There are routers, where the multicast requests are intentionally delayed, and in these environments the current implementation causes periodic packet loss for the proxied endpoints. The root cause is the erroneous decrease of the hop limit, as this is checked in ndisc.c and no answer is generated when it's 254 instead of the correct 255. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 46c7655f0b56 ("ipv6: decrease hop limit counter in ip6_forward()") Signed-off-by: Gergely Risko <gergely.risko@gmail.com> Tested-by: Gergely Risko <gergely.risko@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.