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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> | 2009-10-07 12:18:17 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-10-07 12:18:17 +0200 |
| commit | a21090cff296eb82b6de09304d64de466bdcaefc (patch) | |
| tree | 9fb1079548ed85e802c3cc46aa525ae51619e88c /net/ipv4/devinet.c | |
| parent | gigaset: add kerneldoc comments (diff) | |
| download | linux-a21090cff296eb82b6de09304d64de466bdcaefc.tar.xz linux-a21090cff296eb82b6de09304d64de466bdcaefc.zip | |
ipv4: arp_notify address list bug
This fixes a bug with arp_notify.
If arp_notify is enabled, kernel will crash if address is changed
and no IP address is assigned.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14330
Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/devinet.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/devinet.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index e92f1fd28aa5..5df2f6a0b0f0 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -1077,12 +1077,16 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, ip_mc_up(in_dev); /* fall through */ case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR: - if (IN_DEV_ARP_NOTIFY(in_dev)) - arp_send(ARPOP_REQUEST, ETH_P_ARP, - in_dev->ifa_list->ifa_address, - dev, - in_dev->ifa_list->ifa_address, - NULL, dev->dev_addr, NULL); + /* Send gratuitous ARP to notify of link change */ + if (IN_DEV_ARP_NOTIFY(in_dev)) { + struct in_ifaddr *ifa = in_dev->ifa_list; + + if (ifa) + arp_send(ARPOP_REQUEST, ETH_P_ARP, + ifa->ifa_address, dev, + ifa->ifa_address, NULL, + dev->dev_addr, NULL); + } break; case NETDEV_DOWN: ip_mc_down(in_dev); |