From: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 13:22:41 -0500
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 02:16:04PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
From: Dave Taht dave.taht@gmail.com
commit 65cab850f0eeaa9180bd2e10a231964f33743edf upstream.
While most distributions long ago switched to the iproute2 suite of utilities, which allow class-e (240.0.0.0/4) address assignment, distributions relying on busybox, toybox and other forms of ifconfig cannot assign class-e addresses without this kernel patch.
While CIDR has been obsolete for 2 decades, and a survey of all the open source code in the world shows the IN_whatever macros are also obsolete... rather than obsolete CIDR from this ioctl entirely, this patch merely enables class-e assignment, sanely.
Signed-off-by: Dave Taht dave.taht@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij linus.walleij@linaro.org
Is this really a fix? This isn't something that ever worked.
Either way, David Miller will need to sign off on this since he manages net/ -stable patches.
I don't think this is -stable material at all.