Here's that 2.4.9 patch to devinet.c backported to 2.2.19. Same
functionality, but caters for CONFIG_IP_ALIAS:
The patch is also available at
http://mandree.home.pages.de/linux/kernel/2.2/
Alan, please consider this for inclusion into your current 2.2.20pre*
series.
--- devinet.c.orig Fri Dec 22 12:36:33 2000
+++ devinet.c Tue Oct 2 04:29:03 2001
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
* Changes:
* Alexey Kuznetsov: pa_* fields are replaced with ifaddr lists.
* Cyrus Durgin: updated for kmod
+ * Matthias Andree: in devinet_ioctl, compare label and
+ * address (4.4BSD alias style support),
+ * fall back to comparing just the label
+ * if no match found.
*/
#include <linux/config.h>
@@ -405,6 +409,8 @@
struct device *dev;
#ifdef CONFIG_IP_ALIAS
char *colon;
+ struct sockaddr_in sin_orig;
+ int tryaddrmatch = 0;
#endif
int exclusive = 0;
int ret = 0;
@@ -418,6 +424,9 @@
ifr.ifr_name[IFNAMSIZ-1] = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_IP_ALIAS
+ /* save original address for comparison */
+ memcpy(&sin_orig, sin, sizeof(*sin));
+
colon = strchr(ifr.ifr_name, ':');
if (colon)
*colon = 0;
@@ -436,6 +445,9 @@
so that we do not impose a lock.
One day we will be forced to put shlock here (I mean SMP)
*/
+#ifdef CONFIG_IP_ALIAS
+ tryaddrmatch = (sin_orig.sin_family == AF_INET);
+#endif
memset(sin, 0, sizeof(*sin));
sin->sin_family = AF_INET;
break;
@@ -473,6 +485,25 @@
#endif
if ((in_dev=dev->ip_ptr) != NULL) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_IP_ALIAS
+ if (tryaddrmatch) {
+ /* Matthias Andree */
+ /* compare label and address (4.4BSD style) */
+ /* note: we only do this for a limited set of ioctls
+ and only if the original address family was AF_INET.
+ This is checked above. */
+ for (ifap=&in_dev->ifa_list; (ifa=*ifap) != NULL; ifap=&ifa->ifa_next) {
+ if ((strcmp(ifr.ifr_name, ifa->ifa_label) == 0)
+ && (sin_orig.sin_addr.s_addr == ifa->ifa_address)) {
+ break; /* found */
+ } /* if */
+ } /* for */
+ }
+ /* we didn't get a match, maybe the application is
+ 4.3BSD-style and passed in junk so we fall back to
+ comparing just the label */
+ if (ifa == NULL)
+#endif
for (ifap=&in_dev->ifa_list; (ifa=*ifap) != NULL; ifap=&ifa->ifa_next)
if (strcmp(ifr.ifr_name, ifa->ifa_label) == 0)
break;
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