> Relevant standard (RFC 3493) notes:
>
>    The IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS option may be used with getsockopt() to
>    determine the hop limit value that the system will use for subsequent
>    unicast packets sent via that socket.
>
> I don't reckon -1 could be the hop limit value.

-1 means un-initialized.

> IMHO, the value from
> case 1 (if socket is connected to some destination), otherwise case 2
> (if bound to a scope interface) or ultimately the default hop limit
> ought to be returned instead, as it will be most often correct, while
> the current behavior is always wrong, unless setsockopt() has been used
> first. I don't if some people may think doing a route lookup in
> getsockopt might be overly expensive, but at least the two other cases
> should be ok, particularly the last one.

The following patch seems to work for me, but this code has behaved this
way for a while, so don't know if it will break any existing apps.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>