Hi Linus, FYI this was backported to the Openwrt patch tree by yours truly in https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=2574c86ce66c4032e5905d46601106ccc0c69676 and the follow up fix in https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=1fdb4a7907e0290c7fe5ca3346d40782002dec7b I await the opportunity to remove the patches for 4.9/4.14/4.19 courtesy delivery from upstream :-) Cheers, Kevin > On 14 Feb 2019, at 12:22, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@xxxxxxxxx> > > commit 65cab850f0eeaa9180bd2e10a231964f33743edf upstream. > > 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 <dave.taht@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > - This commit is upstream in v4.20 > - This should ve applied for stable v4.19.y, v4.14.y and v4.9.y > --- > include/uapi/linux/in.h | 10 +++++++--- > net/ipv4/devinet.c | 5 +++-- > net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 2 ++ > 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/in.h b/include/uapi/linux/in.h > index 48e8a225b985..f6052e70bf40 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/linux/in.h > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/in.h > @@ -266,10 +266,14 @@ struct sockaddr_in { > > #define IN_CLASSD(a) ((((long int) (a)) & 0xf0000000) == 0xe0000000) > #define IN_MULTICAST(a) IN_CLASSD(a) > -#define IN_MULTICAST_NET 0xF0000000 > +#define IN_MULTICAST_NET 0xe0000000 > > -#define IN_EXPERIMENTAL(a) ((((long int) (a)) & 0xf0000000) == 0xf0000000) > -#define IN_BADCLASS(a) IN_EXPERIMENTAL((a)) > +#define IN_BADCLASS(a) ((((long int) (a) ) == 0xffffffff) > +#define IN_EXPERIMENTAL(a) IN_BADCLASS((a)) > + > +#define IN_CLASSE(a) ((((long int) (a)) & 0xf0000000) == 0xf0000000) > +#define IN_CLASSE_NET 0xffffffff > +#define IN_CLASSE_NSHIFT 0 > > /* Address to accept any incoming messages. */ > #define INADDR_ANY ((unsigned long int) 0x00000000) > diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c > index ea4bd8a52422..e38042933a27 100644 > --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c > +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c > @@ -941,17 +941,18 @@ 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; > diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c > index 88212615bf4c..2393e5c106bf 100644 > --- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c > +++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c > @@ -429,6 +429,8 @@ static int __init ic_defaults(void) > ic_netmask = htonl(IN_CLASSB_NET); > else if (IN_CLASSC(ntohl(ic_myaddr))) > ic_netmask = htonl(IN_CLASSC_NET); > + else if (IN_CLASSE(ntohl(ic_myaddr))) > + ic_netmask = htonl(IN_CLASSE_NET); > else { > pr_err("IP-Config: Unable to guess netmask for address %pI4\n", > &ic_myaddr); > -- > 2.20.1 > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel Cheers, Kevin D-B 012C ACB2 28C6 C53E 9775 9123 B3A2 389B 9DE2 334A
