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arp: fix a regression in arp_solicit()
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Sedat reported the following commit caused a regression:

commit 9650388
Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 21 07:32:10 2012 +0000

    ipv4: arp: fix a lockdep splat in arp_solicit

This is due to the 6th parameter of arp_send() needs to be NULL
for the broadcast case, the above commit changed it to an all-zero
array by mistake.

Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Cong Wang authored and David S. Miller committed Dec 25, 2012
1 parent d2fe85d commit cf0be88
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions net/ipv4/arp.c
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Expand Up @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static void arp_error_report(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb)
static void arp_solicit(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
__be32 saddr = 0;
u8 dst_ha[MAX_ADDR_LEN];
u8 dst_ha[MAX_ADDR_LEN], *dst_hw = NULL;
struct net_device *dev = neigh->dev;
__be32 target = *(__be32 *)neigh->primary_key;
int probes = atomic_read(&neigh->probes);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -364,8 +364,8 @@ static void arp_solicit(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (!(neigh->nud_state & NUD_VALID))
pr_debug("trying to ucast probe in NUD_INVALID\n");
neigh_ha_snapshot(dst_ha, neigh, dev);
dst_hw = dst_ha;
} else {
memset(dst_ha, 0, dev->addr_len);
probes -= neigh->parms->app_probes;
if (probes < 0) {
#ifdef CONFIG_ARPD
Expand All @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ static void arp_solicit(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb)
}

arp_send(ARPOP_REQUEST, ETH_P_ARP, target, dev, saddr,
dst_ha, dev->dev_addr, NULL);
dst_hw, dev->dev_addr, NULL);
}

static int arp_ignore(struct in_device *in_dev, __be32 sip, __be32 tip)
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