From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Or Gerlitz Subject: Re: How to handle illegal multicast addresses in IPoIB? Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:33:45 +0300 Message-ID: <4AB78EC9.7020805@Voltaire.com> References: <4AB78040.9000606@Voltaire.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AB78040.9000606-hKgKHo2Ms0F+cjeuK/JdrQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Moni Shoua Cc: Roland Dreier , Jason Gunthorpe , linux-rdma List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Moni Shoua wrote: > One patch (http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2009-August/061663.html) checks each > multicast address for validity before it lets it get into the queue. isn't it the below commit which appears in Linus tree? Or. > commit 5e47596bee12597824a3b5b21e20f80b61e58a35 > Author: Jason Gunthorpe > Date: Sat Sep 5 20:23:40 2009 -0700 > > IPoIB: Check multicast address format > > Check that the format of multicast link addresses is correct before > taking them from dev->mc_list to priv->multicast_list. This way we > never try to send a bogus address to the SA, which prevents badness > from erronous 'ip maddr addr add', broken bonding drivers, etc. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe > Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html