Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Fix deletion of local addresses only varying in prefix length

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>]

* Patrick McHardy <42290738.6050605@trash.net> 2005-03-05 02:11
> Herbert Xu wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 01:46:42AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >
> >>I think that would be ok. Unrelated to this: for IFA_ADDRESS we don't
> >>do an exact match, perhaps we should also do this for IFA_LOCAL for
> >>consistency.
> >
> >
> >You mean that we do do an exact match for IFA_ADDRESS?
> 
> No, I meant that IFA_ADDRESS matches on exact prefixlen, but uses
> inet_ifa_match() for comparing the addresses. In any case we should
> keep the behaviour that no given prefix is a wildcard, but if a
> prefix is given we could do something similar as for IFA_ADDRESS.

This will change the behaviour and makes my work completely useless.

Assuming one adds 1.1.1.1/24, 1.1.1.2/24 and then deletes 1.1.1.2/24
one would expect 1.1.1.2/24 to be deleted but that wouldn't be the
case.