Re: [PATCH net 2/2] sctp: not copying duplicate addrs to the assoc's bind address list

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>> > Ah, I see what you're doing.  Ok, this makes some sense, at least on the receive
>> > side, when you get a cookie unpacked and modify the remote peers address list,
>> > it makes sense to check for duplicates.  On the local side however, I would,
>> > instead of checking it when the list gets copied, I'd check it when the master
>> > list gets updated (in the NETDEV_UP event notifier for the local address list,
>>
>> I was thinking about to check it in the NETDEV_UP, yes it can make the
>> master list has no duplicated addresses.  But what if two same addresses
>> events come, and they come from different NICs (though I can't point  out
>> the valid use case), then we filter there.
>>
> That I think would be a bug in the protocol code.  For the ipv4 case, all
> addresses are owned by the system and the same addresses added to multiple
> interfaces should not be allowed.  The same is true of ipv6 case.  The only
> exception there is a link local address and that should still be unique within
> the context of an address/dev tuple.
>
understand, just sounds a little harsh. :-)

For now, does it make sense to you to just leave as the master list
is, and check
the duplicate address when sctp is really binding them ?
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