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| author | Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> | 2018-12-12 00:30:34 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-12-15 00:39:31 +0100 |
| commit | 65cab850f0eeaa9180bd2e10a231964f33743edf (patch) | |
| tree | 4961b7fab35dd56eed20a01ee338e3cfd1bed7a4 /net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | |
| parent | ip6mr: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerability (diff) | |
| download | linux-65cab850f0eeaa9180bd2e10a231964f33743edf.tar.xz linux-65cab850f0eeaa9180bd2e10a231964f33743edf.zip | |
net: Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl
While most distributions long ago switched to the iproute2 suite
of utilities, which allow class-e (240.0.0.0/4) address assignment,
distributions relying on busybox, toybox and other forms of
ifconfig cannot assign class-e addresses without this kernel patch.
While CIDR has been obsolete for 2 decades, and a survey of all the
open source code in the world shows the IN_whatever macros are also
obsolete... rather than obsolete CIDR from this ioctl entirely, this
patch merely enables class-e assignment, sanely.
Signed-off-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/ipconfig.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c index 88212615bf4c..2393e5c106bf 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c @@ -429,6 +429,8 @@ static int __init ic_defaults(void) ic_netmask = htonl(IN_CLASSB_NET); else if (IN_CLASSC(ntohl(ic_myaddr))) ic_netmask = htonl(IN_CLASSC_NET); + else if (IN_CLASSE(ntohl(ic_myaddr))) + ic_netmask = htonl(IN_CLASSE_NET); else { pr_err("IP-Config: Unable to guess netmask for address %pI4\n", &ic_myaddr); |