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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:49:15 +0100
From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...taire.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] infiniband: convert to use
netdev_for_each_mc_addr
Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:00:07AM CET, ogerlitz@...taire.com wrote:
>Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c
>> @@ -767,11 +767,8 @@ void ipoib_mcast_dev_flush(struct net_device *dev)
>> -static int ipoib_mcast_addr_is_valid(const u8 *addr, unsigned int addrlen,
>> - const u8 *broadcast)
>> +static int ipoib_mcast_addr_is_valid(const u8 *addr, const u8 *broadcast)
>> {
>> - if (addrlen != INFINIBAND_ALEN)
>> - return 0;
>
>This check was added by commit 5e47596b "IPoIB: Check multicast address format", may I ask what is the reason for removing it now?
Yes, at this very moment the check is not needless but it will be in a brief
future. dev_mc_add will look very similar like dev_unicast_add. But ok. Here's
patch adding the check in dev_mc_add right now to correct this state. Thanks Or.
Subject: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: add addr len check to dev_mc_add
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
diff --git a/net/core/dev_mcast.c b/net/core/dev_mcast.c
index 9e2fa39..fd91569 100644
--- a/net/core/dev_mcast.c
+++ b/net/core/dev_mcast.c
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ int dev_mc_add(struct net_device *dev, void *addr, int alen, int glbl)
int err;
netif_addr_lock_bh(dev);
+ if (alen != dev->addr_len)
+ return -EINVAL;
err = __dev_addr_add(&dev->mc_list, &dev->mc_count, addr, alen, glbl);
if (!err)
__dev_set_rx_mode(dev);
--
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