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[net-next,03/16] Allow binding to non-local addresses if IP_TRANSPARENT is set

Message ID 20081001142431.4893.89758.stgit@este
State Accepted, archived
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KOVACS Krisztian Oct. 1, 2008, 2:24 p.m. UTC
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>
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 net/ipv4/af_inet.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)



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diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index 8a3ac1f..1fbff5f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
@@ -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 &&