From: David S. Miller Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 21:27:16 +0000 (-0800) Subject: ipv4: Fix erroneous uses of ifa_address. X-Git-Url: http://git.alex.org.uk ipv4: Fix erroneous uses of ifa_address. In usual cases ifa_address == ifa_local, but in the case where SIOCSIFDSTADDR sets the destination address on a point-to-point link, ifa_address gets set to that destination address. Therefore we should use ifa_local when we want the local interface address. There were two cases where the selection was done incorrectly: 1) When devinet_ioctl() does matching, it checks ifa_address even though gifconf correct reported ifa_local to the user 2) IN_DEV_ARP_NOTIFY handling sends a gratuitous ARP using ifa_address instead of ifa_local. Reported-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index df4616f..036652c 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ int devinet_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg) ifap = &ifa->ifa_next) { if (!strcmp(ifr.ifr_name, ifa->ifa_label) && sin_orig.sin_addr.s_addr == - ifa->ifa_address) { + ifa->ifa_local) { break; /* found */ } } @@ -1040,8 +1040,8 @@ static void inetdev_send_gratuitous_arp(struct net_device *dev, return; arp_send(ARPOP_REQUEST, ETH_P_ARP, - ifa->ifa_address, dev, - ifa->ifa_address, NULL, + ifa->ifa_local, dev, + ifa->ifa_local, NULL, dev->dev_addr, NULL); }