From 65cab850f0eeaa9180bd2e10a231964f33743edf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Taht Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:30:34 -0800 Subject: net: Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl While most distributions long ago switched to the iproute2 suite of utilities, which allow class-e (240.0.0.0/4) address assignment, distributions relying on busybox, toybox and other forms of ifconfig cannot assign class-e addresses without this kernel patch. While CIDR has been obsolete for 2 decades, and a survey of all the open source code in the world shows the IN_whatever macros are also obsolete... rather than obsolete CIDR from this ioctl entirely, this patch merely enables class-e assignment, sanely. Signed-off-by: Dave Taht Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/devinet.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/devinet.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index a34602ae27de..608a6f4223fb 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -952,17 +952,18 @@ static int inet_abc_len(__be32 addr) { int rc = -1; /* Something else, probably a multicast. */ - if (ipv4_is_zeronet(addr)) + if (ipv4_is_zeronet(addr) || ipv4_is_lbcast(addr)) rc = 0; else { __u32 haddr = ntohl(addr); - if (IN_CLASSA(haddr)) rc = 8; else if (IN_CLASSB(haddr)) rc = 16; else if (IN_CLASSC(haddr)) rc = 24; + else if (IN_CLASSE(haddr)) + rc = 32; } return rc; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b