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[net-next,1/2] ip: Treat IPv4 segment's lowest address as unicast

Message ID 20210320000221.GA10062@frotz.zork.net (mailing list archive)
State Deferred
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series Treat IPv4 lowest address as ordinary unicast address | expand

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Commit Message

Seth David Schoen March 20, 2021, 12:02 a.m. UTC 
Treat the lowest-numbered address in each IPv4 network
segment as unicast, not broadcast.

Signed-off-by: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
Suggested-by: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
---
 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
index 84bb707bd88d..bfb345c88271 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
@@ -1122,10 +1122,8 @@  void fib_add_ifaddr(struct in_ifaddr *ifa)
 				  prefix, ifa->ifa_prefixlen, prim,
 				  ifa->ifa_rt_priority);
 
-		/* Add network specific broadcasts, when it takes a sense */
+		/* Add the network broadcast address, when it makes sense */
 		if (ifa->ifa_prefixlen < 31) {
-			fib_magic(RTM_NEWROUTE, RTN_BROADCAST, prefix, 32,
-				  prim, 0);
 			fib_magic(RTM_NEWROUTE, RTN_BROADCAST, prefix | ~mask,
 				  32, prim, 0);
 		}