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    arp: honour gratuitous ARP _replies_ · 23d268eb
    Ihar Hrachyshka authored
    When arp_accept is 1, gratuitous ARPs are supposed to override matching
    entries irrespective of whether they arrive during locktime. This was
    implemented in commit 56022a8f
    
     ("ipv4: arp: update neighbour address
    when a gratuitous arp is received and arp_accept is set")
    
    There is a glitch in the patch though. RFC 2002, section 4.6, "ARP,
    Proxy ARP, and Gratuitous ARP", defines gratuitous ARPs so that they can
    be either of Request or Reply type. Those Reply gratuitous ARPs can be
    triggered with standard tooling, for example, arping -A option does just
    that.
    
    This patch fixes the glitch, making both Request and Reply flavours of
    gratuitous ARPs to behave identically.
    
    As per RFC, if gratuitous ARPs are of Reply type, their Target Hardware
    Address field should also be set to the link-layer address to which this
    cache entry should be updated. The field is present in ARP over Ethernet
    but not in IEEE 1394. In this patch, I don't consider any broadcasted
    ARP replies as gratuitous if the field is not present, to conform the
    standard. It's not clear whether there is such a thing for IEEE 1394 as
    a gratuitous ARP reply; until it's cleared up, we will ignore such
    broadcasts. Note that they will still update existing ARP cache entries,
    assuming they arrive out of locktime time interval.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIhar Hrachyshka <ihrachys@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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