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net: ipv4: relax AF_INET check in bind()
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:57:00 +0000 (18:57 -0400)
committerMaxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@oracle.com>
Wed, 16 May 2012 23:51:16 +0000 (16:51 -0700)
commit144248e8e4dacc003a6dc1a33083db3ae5c80b18
tree2a18d1273e1b23606c1c63ee064f6842705ba71e
parentd462d29f9fc62c930ad010aab9ae5aa26643eeb6
net: ipv4: relax AF_INET check in bind()

Orabug: 14054411
commit d0733d2e29b65 (Check for mistakenly passed in non-IPv4 address)
added regression on legacy apps that use bind() with AF_UNSPEC family.

Relax the check, but make sure the bind() is done on INADDR_ANY
addresses, as AF_UNSPEC has probably no sane meaning for other
addresses.

Bugzilla reference : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42012

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reported-and-bisected-by: Rene Meier <r_meier@freenet.de>
CC: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/af_inet.c