From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 04:37:49 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: ip: Treat IPv4 segment's lowest address as unicast
X-Git-Url: http://git.osdn.net/view?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94c821c74bf5fe0c25e09df5334a16f98608db90;p=uclinux-h8%2Flinux.git

ip: Treat IPv4 segment's lowest address as unicast

Treat only the highest, not the lowest, IPv4 address within a local
subnet as a broadcast address.

Signed-off-by: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
Suggested-by: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

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);
 		}