[PATCH] net/ipv4/arp.c: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0 (was: Strange behavior in arp probe reply, bug or feature?)

From: Jonas Danielsson
Date: Thu Nov 15 2007 - 06:40:39 EST


Fix arp reply when received arp probe with sender ip 0.

Can't find any ground in RFC2131 to send a non-valid arp-reply in
the special case of sender ip being set to 0.

- Bug fix for arp handling when sender ip is set to 0.
Send a correct arp reply instead of one with sender ip and sender
hardware adress in target fields.

Now sends target ip and target hw as received in arp probe.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Danielsson <the.sator@xxxxxxxxx>

---
arp.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: arp.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvs/linux/os/linux-2.6/net/ipv4/arp.c,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -w -r1.22 arp.c
--- arp.c 13 Oct 2006 12:45:47 -0000 1.22
+++ arp.c 15 Nov 2007 10:34:44 -0000
@@ -827,7 +827,8 @@
if (arp->ar_op == htons(ARPOP_REQUEST) &&
inet_addr_type(tip) == RTN_LOCAL &&
!arp_ignore(in_dev,dev,sip,tip))
- arp_send(ARPOP_REPLY,ETH_P_ARP,tip,dev,tip,sha,dev->dev_addr,dev->dev_addr);
+ arp_send(ARPOP_REPLY, ETH_P_ARP, sip, dev, tip, sha,
+ dev->dev_addr, sha);
goto out;
}
-
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