netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/4] ipv4: Remove erroneous check in igmpv3_newpack() and igmp_send

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:50:08 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ipv4: Remove erroneous check in igmpv3_newpack()
 and igmp_send_report().

Le mardi 26 avril 2011 à 15:12 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
> Output route resolution never returns a route with rt_src set to zero
> (which is INADDR_ANY).
> 
> Even if the flow key for the output route lookup specifies INADDR_ANY
> for the source address, the output route resolution chooses a real
> source address to use in the final route.
> 
> This test has existed forever in igmp_send_report() and David Stevens
> simply copied over the erroneous test when implementing support for
> IGMPv3.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>


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