Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink & address family problem

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