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

[Simone Piunno <pioppo@ferrara.linux.it>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:58:09PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:

> > And, patch does not seem optimal. I'd take a look at very soon.
> 
> Here's our patch based on our fix in August, 2001.
> Question: should we use spin_lock_bh() instead of spin_lock()?

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.

Anyway I have some critics over your patch: 

 - 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.

 - 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.

Regards,
  Simone

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