Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink & address family problem

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 09:02, Thomas Graf wrote:

> Your patch would fix this issue but might break various things. The
> actual problem is that iproute2 doesn't check the family in its filter.
> It blindly assumes that the kernel only returns addresses of the kind it
> has requested. I can understand if you think the current behaviour
> is wrong but we shouldn't change it in the middle of a stable tree.

Why would it be wrong? The PF_UNSPEC is there for a purpose.

If user space decides it wants to flush ipv4 addresses blindly that user
spaces fault. The patch you attached seems legit. did you verify it?

BTW, Stephen - are you still updating iproute2? 

cheers,
jamal