This patchset is spurred by discussion started at https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/760372/ where we figured that there is no real reason for enforcing override by gratuitous ARP packets only when arp_accept is 1. Same should happen when it's 0 (the default value).
changelog v2: handled review comments by Julian Anastasov - fixed a mistake in a comment; - postponed addr_type calculation to as late as possible. Ihar Hrachyshka (4): arp: fixed error in a comment arp: decompose is_garp logic into a separate function arp: postpone addr_type calculation to as late as possible arp: always override existing neigh entries with gratuitous ARP net/ipv4/arp.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.9.3
