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    ipconfig: Correctly initialise ic_nameservers · e6605087
    Chris Novakovic authored
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    ic_nameservers, which stores the list of name servers discovered by
    ipconfig, is initialised (i.e. has all of its elements set to NONE, or
    0xffffffff) by ic_nameservers_predef() in the following scenarios:
    
     - before the "ip=" and "nfsaddrs=" kernel command line parameters are
       parsed (in ip_auto_config_setup());
     - before autoconfiguring via DHCP or BOOTP (in ic_bootp_init()), in
       order to clear any values that may have been set after parsing "ip="
       or "nfsaddrs=" and are no longer needed.
    
    This means that ic_nameservers_predef() is not called when neither "ip="
    nor "nfsaddrs=" is specified on the kernel command line. In this
    scenario, every element in ic_nameservers remains set to 0x00000000,
    which is indistinguishable from ANY and causes pnp_seq_show() to write
    the following (bogus) information to /proc/net/pnp:
    
      #MANUAL
      nameserver 0.0.0.0
      nameserver 0.0.0.0
      nameserver 0.0.0.0
    
    This is potentially problematic for systems that blindly link
    /etc/resolv.conf to /proc/net/pnp.
    
    Ensure that ic_nameservers is also initialised when neither "ip=" nor
    "nfsaddrs=" are specified by calling ic_nameservers_predef() in
    ip_auto_config(), but only when ip_auto_config_setup() was not called
    earlier. This causes the following to be written to /proc/net/pnp, and
    is consistent with what gets written when ipconfig is configured
    manually but no name servers are specified on the kernel command line:
    
      #MANUAL
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Novakovic <chris@chrisn.me.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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