Gui Jianfeng wrote:
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> If an address family is not listed in "Supported Address Types" parameter(INIT Chunk), 
> but the packet is sent by that family, this address family should be considered as supported by peer.
> Otherwise, an error condition will occur. For instance, if kernel receives an IPV6 SCTP INIT chunk with
> "Support Address Types" parameter which indicates just supporting IPV4 Address family. Kernel will reply
> an IPV6 SCTP INIT ACK packet, but the source ipv6 address in ipv6 header will be vacant. This is not correct.
> 
> refer to RFC4460 as following:
>       IMPLEMENTATION NOTE: If an SCTP endpoint lists in the 'Supported
>       Address Types' parameter either IPv4 or IPv6, but uses the other
>       family for sending the packet containing the INIT chunk, or if it
>       also lists addresses of the other family in the INIT chunk, then
>       the address family that is not listed in the 'Supported Address
>       Types' parameter SHOULD also be considered as supported by the
>       receiver of the INIT chunk.  The receiver of the INIT chunk SHOULD
>       NOT respond with any kind of error indication.
> 
> Here is a fix to comply to RFC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>

Thanks for catching this.
-vlad

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