ipv6: Remove IPV6_ADDR_RESERVED

RFC 4291 section 2.4 states that all uncategorized addresses
should be considered as Global Unicast.

This will remove IPV6_ADDR_RESERVED completely
and return IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST in ipv6_addr_type() instead.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weber <uweber@astaro.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 1b327f15e7e7..88fd8c5877ee 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -992,8 +992,7 @@ struct ipv6_saddr_dst {
 
 static inline int ipv6_saddr_preferred(int type)
 {
-        if (type & (IPV6_ADDR_MAPPED|IPV6_ADDR_COMPATv4|
-                    IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK|IPV6_ADDR_RESERVED))
+        if (type & (IPV6_ADDR_MAPPED|IPV6_ADDR_COMPATv4|IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))
                 return 1;
         return 0;
 }