[ofa-general] [PATCH] IB/IPoIB: Don't let a bad muticast address in the join list stop subsequent joins

[Moni Shoua]

Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Moni Shoua wrote:
>> This is an example that shows it can be done from userspace. Roland, I
>> think that the output below answers your question.
>>
>>
>> Before ip maddr show
>> -------------------------------
>> linux:/etc/sysconfig/network # ip m s dev ib0
>> 9:      ib0
>>         link  00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:60:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:01:00:00:00:00
>>         link  00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
>>         link  00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:60:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
> Note that these are all junk mgids as well, with the problem being in
> the iproute2 package, its been fixed since Novmeber last year (see
> 7f71c0cae2db61890474e04ba3a26e40219e5561 "ip maddr show” on an
> infiniband address causes a stack corruption")
> 
Thanks. I intend to look at it.
>> linux:/etc/sysconfig/network # ip maddr add 33:33:00:00:00:01 dev ib0
> permissions for that?
> 
Needs root but as I already answered I don't think that this is a reason to ignore the example.