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>

3 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 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;
 }
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c
index 3f82e9542eda..6b03826552e1 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ int __ipv6_addr_type(const struct in6_addr *addr)
                                 IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_TYPE(IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_GLOBAL));  /* addr-select 3.3 */
         }
 
-        return (IPV6_ADDR_RESERVED |
+        return (IPV6_ADDR_UNICAST |
                 IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_TYPE(IPV6_ADDR_SCOPE_GLOBAL));  /* addr-select 3.4 */
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ipv6_addr_type);
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 88c0a5c49ae8..b08879e97f22 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@ static int ip6_pkt_drop(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 code, int ipstats_mib_noroutes)
         switch (ipstats_mib_noroutes) {
         case IPSTATS_MIB_INNOROUTES:
                 type = ipv6_addr_type(&ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr);
-                if (type == IPV6_ADDR_ANY || type == IPV6_ADDR_RESERVED) {
+                if (type == IPV6_ADDR_ANY) {
                         IP6_INC_STATS(dev_net(dst->dev), ip6_dst_idev(dst),
                                       IPSTATS_MIB_INADDRERRORS);
                         break;