[PATCH] net/ceph/messenger: support IPv6 Link-Local with scope identifier

From: Max Kellermann

Date: Mon Jun 29 2026 - 15:56:29 EST


Implement ceph_pton() using inet_pton_with_scope(). This minimal
patch preserves the ceph_pton() API and thus requires copying the
parameter to a null-terminated string.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ceph/messenger.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ceph/messenger.c b/net/ceph/messenger.c
index 34b3097b4c7b..4848ae5f61bb 100644
--- a/net/ceph/messenger.c
+++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c
@@ -1221,19 +1221,37 @@ void ceph_addr_set_port(struct ceph_entity_addr *addr, int p)
static int ceph_pton(const char *str, size_t len, struct ceph_entity_addr *addr,
char delim, const char **ipend)
{
- memset(&addr->in_addr, 0, sizeof(addr->in_addr));
+ const char *delim_p;
+ char *copy;
+ struct sockaddr_storage stor = { 0 };
+ int ret;

- if (in4_pton(str, len, (u8 *)&((struct sockaddr_in *)&addr->in_addr)->sin_addr.s_addr, delim, ipend)) {
- put_unaligned(AF_INET, &addr->in_addr.ss_family);
- return 0;
- }
+ delim_p = memchr(str, delim, len);
+ if (delim_p)
+ /* delimiter was found - stop parsing there */
+ len = delim_p - str;

- if (in6_pton(str, len, (u8 *)&((struct sockaddr_in6 *)&addr->in_addr)->sin6_addr.s6_addr, delim, ipend)) {
- put_unaligned(AF_INET6, &addr->in_addr.ss_family);
- return 0;
+ /* the input string might not be null terminated, so copy it
+ * to a null-terminated string
+ */
+ copy = kstrndup(str, len, GFP_NOFS);
+ if (!copy)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ ret = inet_pton_with_scope(&init_net, AF_UNSPEC, copy, NULL, &stor);
+ kfree(copy);
+
+ if (!ret) {
+ /* ceph_entity_addr might be misaligned, so we have to
+ * parse to a stack variable first
+ */
+ memcpy(&addr->in_addr, &stor, sizeof(stor));
+
+ /* return the end of the parsed portion to the caller on success */
+ *ipend = str + len;
}

- return -EINVAL;
+ return ret;
}

/*
--
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