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Message-ID: <OFFD46637C.90C02CF8-ON882572DA.0001BA3C-882572DA.0001E6DB@us.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 17:21:10 -0700
From: David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
To: Corey Mutter <crm-netdev@...-machine.mutternet.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Reverse sense of promisc tests in ip6_mc_input
Your patch looks correct to me.
+-DLS
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org wrote on 05/12/2007 03:51:35 PM:
> From: Corey Mutter <crm-netdev@...ternet.com>
>
> Reverse the sense of the promiscuous-mode tests in ip6_mc_input().
>
> Signed-off-by: Corey Mutter <crm-netdev@...ternet.com>
>
> ---
>
> I had been suspicious of this code for a while, but just assumed I must
> have been missing something. However, I did some tests and, sure enough,
> I can open a socket and it will see IPv6 multicast packets come in, then
> the packets will stop coming in when I turn on IFF_ALLMULTI on the
> interface.
>
> In my tests, this change works more like I'd expect; I can open a
> socket, and it doesn't see any multicast packets (unless I join a group
> or something) until after I turn on IFF_ALLMULTI.
>
> --- linux-2.6.21.1/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c 2007-04-27 17:49:26.000000000
-0400
> +++ linux/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c 2007-05-12 18:19:09.597750000 -0400
> @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ int ip6_mc_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
> IP6_INC_STATS_BH(ip6_dst_idev(skb->dst), IPSTATS_MIB_INMCASTPKTS);
>
> hdr = skb->nh.ipv6h;
> - deliver = likely(!(skb->dev->flags & (IFF_PROMISC|IFF_ALLMULTI))) ||
> + deliver = unlikely(skb->dev->flags & (IFF_PROMISC|IFF_ALLMULTI)) ||
> ipv6_chk_mcast_addr(skb->dev, &hdr->daddr, NULL);
>
> /*
> -
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