Commit b9fb1506 authored Oct 01, 2008 by Tóth László Attila Committed by David S. Miller Oct 01, 2008

ipv4: Allow binding to non-local addresses if IP_TRANSPARENT is set

Setting IP_TRANSPARENT is not really useful without allowing non-local
binds for the socket. To make user-space code simpler we allow these
binds even if IP_TRANSPARENT is set but IP_FREEBIND is not.

Signed-off-by: Tóth László Attila <panther@balabit.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent f5715aea

net/ipv4/af_inet.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ int inet_bind(struct socket sock, struct sockaddr uaddr, int addr_len)
		*/
		err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
		if (!sysctl_ip_nonlocal_bind &&
		!inet->freebind &&
		!(inet->freebind \|\| inet->transparent) &&
		addr->sin_addr.s_addr != htonl(INADDR_ANY) &&
		chk_addr_ret != RTN_LOCAL &&
		chk_addr_ret != RTN_MULTICAST &&