Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: don't set IPv6 only flags to IPv4 addresses

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Jul 01 2019 - 12:10:38 EST


On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 18:08 +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> Avoid the situation where an IPV6 only flag is applied to an IPv4 address:
[]
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
[]
> @@ -468,6 +473,9 @@ static int __inet_insert_ifa(struct in_ifaddr *ifa, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
> ifa->ifa_flags &= ~IFA_F_SECONDARY;
> last_primary = &in_dev->ifa_list;
>
> + /* Don't set IPv6 only flags to IPv6 addresses */

umm, IPv4 addresses?