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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2008-05-14 22:33:51 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2008-05-14 22:33:51 +0000
commit5fab55441ced740620008e2387b555f7080e093f (patch)
tree5fc925dbfb2a08b65b3ae73fe9c2b1bbfb60c1a6 /sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
parent1f0398248c1c581a1203c0d294acde295b949fea (diff)
* sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c (get_scope): Loopback addresses have
to be treated like link-local addresses.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c b/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
index c8965ef99d..855c5a5c06 100644
--- a/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
+++ b/sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c
@@ -1112,7 +1112,10 @@ get_scope (const struct sockaddr_in6 *in6)
{
if (! IN6_IS_ADDR_MULTICAST (&in6->sin6_addr))
{
- if (IN6_IS_ADDR_LINKLOCAL (&in6->sin6_addr))
+ if (IN6_IS_ADDR_LINKLOCAL (&in6->sin6_addr)
+ /* RFC 4291 2.5.3 says that the loopback address is to be
+ treated like a link-local address. */
+ || IN6_IS_ADDR_LOOPBACK (&in6->sin6_addr))
scope = 2;
else if (IN6_IS_ADDR_SITELOCAL (&in6->sin6_addr))
scope = 5;