netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: ping: Return EAFNOSUPPORT when appropriate.

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Date:	Wed, 4 Mar 2015 17:58:25 +0900
From:	Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com>
To:	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: ping: Return EAFNOSUPPORT when appropriate.

> @@ -305,6 +308,11 @@ static int ping_check_bind_addr(struct sock *sk, struct inet_sock *isk,
>                 if (addr_len < sizeof(*addr))
>                         return -EINVAL;
>
> +               if (addr->sin_family != AF_INET &&
> +                   !(addr->sin_family == AF_UNSPEC &&
> +                     addr->sin_addr.s_addr == htonl(INADDR_ANY)))
> +                       return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
> +

Aside: I would be all in favor of deprecating this legacy "bind to \0
and gee whiz it just works (for IPv4)" kind of behaviour.  But
anyway...

Acked-by: Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com>
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