broken ping to ipv6 linklocal addresses on debian buster
I am seeing ping failures to IPv6 linklocal addresses with Debian buster. Easiest example to reproduce is: $ ping -c1 -w1 ff02::1%eth1 connect: Invalid argument $ ping -c1 -w1 ff02::1%eth1 PING ff02::01%eth1(ff02::1%eth1) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from fe80::e0:f9ff:fe0c:37%eth1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms git bisect traced the failure to commit b9ef5513 ("smack: Check address length before reading address family") Arguably ping is being stupid since the buster version is not setting the address family properly (ping on stretch for example does): $ strace -e connect ping6 -c1 -w1 ff02::1%eth1 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_UNSPEC, sa_data="\4\1\0\0\0\0\377\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\3\0\0\0"}, 28) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) but the command works fine on kernels prior to this commit, so this is breakage which goes against the Linux paradigm of "don't break userspace" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
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