Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] bridge: avoid ptype_all packet handling

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:41:00 -0800 (PST)

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:34:14 -0800

> Can you get FC fixed?

I am not the DHCP package maintainer. :-)

I'm up to my earfulls already dealing with people trying
to slug broken patches into the kernel networking that paper
around application bugs. ;)

> Should we add a warning to kernel log, to make distro's fix it?

Unfortunately it looks like a properly formed sockaddr_ll,
the ifindex is in fact zero, so there is nothing we can do
to warn about this case.

The sockaddr_ll sits after the first sockaddr string in the ifreq, and
the rest remains initialized to zeros, thus the bind() succeeds.