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Date:	Tue,  8 Jan 2013 14:02:42 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, shemminger@...tta.com,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net
Subject: [RFC patch net-next] ipv4: use bcast as dst address in case IFF_NOARP is set

When IFF_NOARP is set on a device, dev->dev_addr is used as *dst*
addr of sent frames. That does not make sense. Use rather bcast address
instead.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
---
 net/ipv4/arp.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c
index 9547a273..19d5ac2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/arp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c
@@ -290,11 +290,11 @@ static int arp_constructor(struct neighbour *neigh)
 		if (neigh->type == RTN_MULTICAST) {
 			neigh->nud_state = NUD_NOARP;
 			arp_mc_map(addr, neigh->ha, dev, 1);
-		} else if (dev->flags & (IFF_NOARP | IFF_LOOPBACK)) {
+		} else if (dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) {
 			neigh->nud_state = NUD_NOARP;
 			memcpy(neigh->ha, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
 		} else if (neigh->type == RTN_BROADCAST ||
-			   (dev->flags & IFF_POINTOPOINT)) {
+			   (dev->flags & (IFF_POINTOPOINT | IFF_NOARP))) {
 			neigh->nud_state = NUD_NOARP;
 			memcpy(neigh->ha, dev->broadcast, dev->addr_len);
 		}
-- 
1.8.1

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