From f8a68e752bc4e39644843403168137663c984524 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:27:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "ipv4: arp announce, arp_proxy and windows ip conflict verification" This reverts commit 73ce7b01b4496a5fbf9caf63033c874be692333f. After discovering that we don't listen to gratuitious arps in 2.6.30 I tracked the failure down to this commit. The patch makes absolutely no sense. RFC2131 RFC3927 and RFC5227. are all in agreement that an arp request with sip == 0 should be used for the probe (to prevent learning) and an arp request with sip == tip should be used for the gratitous announcement that people can learn from. It appears the author of the broken patch got those two cases confused and modified the code to drop all gratuitous arp traffic. Ouch! Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/arp.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c index 8a3881e28aca..c29d75d8f1b1 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/arp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c @@ -801,11 +801,8 @@ static int arp_process(struct sk_buff *skb) * cache. */ - /* - * Special case: IPv4 duplicate address detection packet (RFC2131) - * and Gratuitous ARP/ARP Announce. (RFC3927, Section 2.4) - */ - if (sip == 0 || tip == sip) { + /* Special case: IPv4 duplicate address detection packet (RFC2131) */ + if (sip == 0) { if (arp->ar_op == htons(ARPOP_REQUEST) && inet_addr_type(net, tip) == RTN_LOCAL && !arp_ignore(in_dev, sip, tip)) -- 2.30.2