Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Don't assign a same IPv6 address on a same interface (is Re: IPv6 duplicate address bugfix)

["YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>]

In article <20030330163656.GA18645@ferrara.linux.it> (at Sun, 30 Mar 2003 18:36:56 +0200), Simone Piunno <pioppo@ferrara.linux.it> says:

> Because everywhere else in the file {read,write}_lock_bh() is used 
> instead of {read,write}_lock(), so I'm assuming that _bh is required 
> but I really don't know why.

maybe.

>  - locking inside ipv6_add_addr() is simpler and more linear but
>    semantically wrong because you're unable to tell the user why his 
>    "ip addr add" failed.  E.g. you answer ENOBUFS instead of EEXIST.

We don't want to create duplicate address in any case.
ipv6_add_addr() IS right place.
And, we can return error code by using IS_ERR() etc.
I'll fix this.


>  - your ipv6_chk_same_addr() does a useless check for (dev != NULL)
> 
>    > +static
>    > +int ipv6_chk_same_addr(const struct in6_addr *addr, struct net_device *dev)
>    > +{
>    > +	struct inet6_ifaddr * ifp;
>    > +	u8 hash = ipv6_addr_hash(addr);
>    > +
>    > +	read_lock_bh(&addrconf_hash_lock);
>    > +	for(ifp = inet6_addr_lst[hash]; ifp; ifp=ifp->lst_next) {
>    > +		if (ipv6_addr_cmp(&ifp->addr, addr) == 0) {
>    > +			if (dev != NULL && ifp->idev->dev == dev)
>    >  				break;
>    >  		}
> 
>    your never "break" if dev == NULL, so you could return 0 before
>    even acquiring the lock.

It is not a problem because dev is always non-NULL.
However, it should be dev == NULL || ifp->idev->dev == dev.
Thanks.
(I don't understand what you mean by "you could return 0
before even acquiring the lock.")

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