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authorMike Karels <karels@FreeBSD.org>2021-09-05 18:14:04 +0000
committerMike Karels <karels@FreeBSD.org>2021-10-19 13:16:32 +0000
commit3ee882bf21afec1adca131783468e9091826521a (patch)
tree92d7e481786dc43ceb1931989328cd3b31b38c7d
parent17ef4736e28d168f30105e7a27c821f7211f1f9a (diff)
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Change lowest address on subnet (host 0) not to broadcast by default.
The address with a host part of all zeros was used as a broadcast long ago, but the default has been all ones since 4.3BSD and RFC1122. Until now, we would broadcast the host zero address as well as the configured address. Change to not broadcasting that address by default, but add a sysctl (net.inet.ip.broadcast_lowest) to re-enable it. Note that the correct way to use the zero address for broadcast would be to configure it as the broadcast address for the network. See https:/datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-lowest-address/ and the discussion in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19316. Note, Linux now implements this. Reviewed by: rgrimes, tuexen; melifaro (previous version) Relnotes: yes Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31861 (cherry picked from commit fd0765933c3ccb059ad7456e657b2e8ed22f58b0)
-rw-r--r--sys/netinet/in.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys/netinet/in.c b/sys/netinet/in.c
index f9b46b414007..80ddeb5079a0 100644
--- a/sys/netinet/in.c
+++ b/sys/netinet/in.c
@@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ SYSCTL_INT(_net_inet_ip, OID_AUTO, no_same_prefix, CTLFLAG_VNET | CTLFLAG_RW,
&VNET_NAME(nosameprefix), 0,
"Refuse to create same prefixes on different interfaces");
+VNET_DEFINE_STATIC(bool, broadcast_lowest);
+#define V_broadcast_lowest VNET(broadcast_lowest)
+SYSCTL_BOOL(_net_inet_ip, OID_AUTO, broadcast_lowest, CTLFLAG_VNET | CTLFLAG_RW,
+ &VNET_NAME(broadcast_lowest), 0,
+ "Treat lowest address on a subnet (host 0) as broadcast");
+
VNET_DECLARE(struct inpcbinfo, ripcbinfo);
#define V_ripcbinfo VNET(ripcbinfo)
@@ -1135,10 +1141,10 @@ in_ifaddr_broadcast(struct in_addr in, struct in_ifaddr *ia)
return ((in.s_addr == ia->ia_broadaddr.sin_addr.s_addr ||
/*
- * Check for old-style (host 0) broadcast, but
+ * Optionally check for old-style (host 0) broadcast, but
* taking into account that RFC 3021 obsoletes it.
*/
- (ia->ia_subnetmask != IN_RFC3021_MASK &&
+ (V_broadcast_lowest && ia->ia_subnetmask != IN_RFC3021_MASK &&
ntohl(in.s_addr) == ia->ia_subnet)) &&
/*
* Check for an all one subnetmask. These