From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> mainline inclusion from mainline-v5.14-rc1 commit 94c821c74bf5fe0c25e09df5334a16f98608db90 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I9PX8J Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i... --------------------------- Treat only the highest, not the lowest, IPv4 address within a local subnet as a broadcast address. Signed-off-by: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> Suggested-by: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> Acked-by: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Conflicts: net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c [There is no conflict when cherry-picking. But we backport newer commit 0c51e12e218f2 causing the checkconflict CI fail.] Signed-off-by: Liu Jian <liujian56@huawei.com> --- v1->v2: update bugzilla net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c index 41f890bf9d4c..efe143885995 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c @@ -1132,10 +1132,8 @@ void fib_add_ifaddr(struct in_ifaddr *ifa) prefix, ifa->ifa_prefixlen, prim, ifa->ifa_rt_priority); - /* Add network specific broadcasts, when it takes a sense */ + /* Add the network broadcast address, when it makes sense */ if (ifa->ifa_prefixlen < 31) { - fib_magic(RTM_NEWROUTE, RTN_BROADCAST, prefix, 32, - prim, 0); fib_magic(RTM_NEWROUTE, RTN_BROADCAST, prefix | ~mask, 32, prim, 0); arp_invalidate(dev, prefix | ~mask, false); -- 2.34.1