Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:00:07AM CET, ogerlitz@voltaire.com wrote:
quoted text
>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@redhat.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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