ip address: do not set home option for IPv4 addresses

'home' option designates a IPv6 address as "home address" as
defined in RFC 6275. This option should be available only for
IPv6 addresses, as correctly stated in the manpage.

However it is possible to set home on IPv4 addresses, too:

$ ip link add dummy0 type dummy
$ ip -4 addr add 192.168.1.1 dev dummy0 home
$ ip a
1: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
   link/ether 1a:6d:c6:96:ca:f8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
   inet 192.168.1.1/32 scope global home dummy0
      valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Fix this adding a check on the protocol family before setting
IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS flag.

Fixes: bac735c53a36d ("enabled to manipulate the flags of IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS or IFA_F_NODAD from ip.")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

diff --git a/ip/ipaddress.c b/ip/ipaddress.c
index 1b8ab783074ab5c8368292f2dffb2db39f509332..7acbd32e1eee60c658a05737ee0339d0301a244b 100644 (file)
--- a/ip/ipaddress.c
+++ b/ip/ipaddress.c
@@ -2247,7 +2247,10 @@ static int ipaddr_modify(int cmd, int flags, int argc, char **argv)
                        if (set_lifetime(&preferred_lft, *argv))
                                invarg("preferred_lft value", *argv);
                } else if (strcmp(*argv, "home") == 0) {
-                       ifa_flags |= IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS;
+                       if (req.ifa.ifa_family == AF_INET6)
+                               ifa_flags |= IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS;
+                       else
+                               fprintf(stderr, "Warning: home option can be set only for IPv6 addresses\n");
                } else if (strcmp(*argv, "nodad") == 0) {
                        if (req.ifa.ifa_family == AF_INET6)
                                ifa_flags |= IFA_F_NODAD;