netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] ipoib: remove addrlen check for mc addresses

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Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:26:14 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, ogerlitz@...taire.com,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, monis@...taire.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] ipoib: remove addrlen check for mc addresses

Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:59:16PM CET, jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 02:21:39PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Finally this bit can be removed. Currently, after the bonding driver is
>> changed/fixed (32a806c194ea112cfab00f558482dd97bee5e44e net-next-2.6),
>> that's not possible for an addr with different length than dev->addr_len
>> to be present in list. Removing this check as in new mc_list there will be
>> no addrlen in the record.
>
>Maybe just make this check a WARN_ON?

As I said, addrlen will no longer be in record (because it would have no
meaning since length ot the addr is always dev->addr_len)

>Can userspace create a mc_list
>entry with the wrong size via netlink?

Nope - this is not possible. dev->addr_len is used.

>
>Jason
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