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Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] ipv4: Make neigh lookup keys for loopback/point-to-point devices be INADDR_ANY

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-01-15 19:54:08

From: Jim Westfall <redacted>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 04:18:49 -0800
This used to be the previous behavior in older kernels but became broken in
a263b3093641f (ipv4: Make neigh lookups directly in output packet path)
and then later removed because it was broken in 0bb4087cbec0 (ipv4: Fix neigh
lookup keying over loopback/point-to-point devices)

Not having this results in there being an arp entry for every remote ip
address that the device talks to.  Given a fairly active device it can
cause the arp table to become huge and/or having to add/purge large number
of entires to keep within table size thresholds.
...
v2: 
 - fixes coding style issues
Series applied and queued up for -stable, thank you.
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