net: Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl
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>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index 8821261..2393e5c 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -429,6 +429,8 @@ static int __init ic_defaults(void)
ic_netmask = htonl(IN_CLASSB_NET);
else if (IN_CLASSC(ntohl(ic_myaddr)))
ic_netmask = htonl(IN_CLASSC_NET);
+ else if (IN_CLASSE(ntohl(ic_myaddr)))
+ ic_netmask = htonl(IN_CLASSE_NET);
else {
pr_err("IP-Config: Unable to guess netmask for address %pI4\n",
&ic_myaddr);
