Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Subject | [PATCH] net/ipv4: add comment about connect() to INADDR_ANY | From | Konstantin Khlebnikov <> | Date | Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:22:50 +0300 |
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Copy comment from net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c to help future readers.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> --- net/ipv4/route.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c index a01efa062f6b..303fe706cbd2 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/route.c +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c @@ -2591,6 +2591,7 @@ struct rtable *ip_route_output_key_hash_rcu(struct net *net, struct flowi4 *fl4, } } + /* connect() to INADDR_ANY means loopback (BSD'ism). */ if (!fl4->daddr) { fl4->daddr = fl4->saddr; if (!fl4->daddr)
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