git: 3d846e48227e - main - Do not forward datagrams originated by link-local addresses

Wed May 19 05:54:20 UTC 2021

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 07:51:38PM -0400, Joe Clarke wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, why remove the RFC reference from the comment?

May you please include the author of the change for such questions?

> > commit 3d846e48227e2e78c1e7b35145f57353ffda56ba
> > Author:     Zhenlei Huang <zlei.huang at gmail.com>
> > AuthorDate: 2021-05-18 20:51:37 +0000
> > Commit:     Lutz Donnerhacke <donner at FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2021-05-18 20:59:46 +0000
> > 
> >    The current implement of ip_input() reject packets destined for
> >    169.254.0.0/16, but not those original from 169.254.0.0/16 link-local
> >    addresses.
> > 
> >    Fix to fully respect RFC 3927 section 2.7.
> > 
> >    PR:             255388
> >    Reviewed by:    donner, rgrimes, karels
> >    MFC after:      1 month
> >    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29968

I did only commit this differential, but set a month for MFC, exactly to
have to opportunity to fix such mistakes.