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

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:35:25AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >>Is there any way userspace can inject a bogus multicast address?
> >>    
> >Can you do it with netlink? ip maddr add address ... dev ib0  
> >  
> aren't the permissions needed for this being the same as for those 
> needed to probe into the kernel a module that crashes the system?

No, you only need CAP_NET_ADMIN.

Jason