The module can be loaded with arp_ip_target="255.255.255.255" which makes
it impossible to remove as the function in sysfs checks for that value,
so we make the parameter checks consistent with sysfs.
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Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
arp_ip_count++) {
/* not complete check, but should be good enough to
catch mistakes */
- if (!isdigit(arp_ip_target[arp_ip_count][0])) {
+ __be32 ip = in_aton(arp_ip_target[arp_ip_count]);
+ if (!isdigit(arp_ip_target[arp_ip_count][0]) ||
+ ip == 0 || ip == htonl(INADDR_BROADCAST)) {
pr_warning("Warning: bad arp_ip_target module parameter (%s), ARP monitoring will not be performed\n",
arp_ip_target[arp_ip_count]);
arp_interval = 0;
} else {
- __be32 ip = in_aton(arp_ip_target[arp_ip_count]);
arp_target[arp_ip_count] = ip;
}
}