The neighbour entry will be destroyed in the case of error, so it is pointless
to perform constly routing table lookup in this case.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
---
net/ipv4/arp.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c
index b715ec0..49c24ff 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/arp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c
@@ -235,8 +235,6 @@ static int arp_constructor(struct neighbour *neigh)
struct in_device *in_dev;
struct neigh_parms *parms;
- neigh->type = inet_addr_type(&init_net, addr);
-
rcu_read_lock();
in_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(dev);
if (in_dev == NULL) {
@@ -244,6 +242,8 @@ static int arp_constructor(struct neighbour *neigh)
return -EINVAL;
}
+ neigh->type = inet_addr_type(&init_net, addr);
+
parms = in_dev->arp_parms;
__neigh_parms_put(neigh->parms);
neigh->parms = neigh_parms_clone(parms);
--
1.5.3.rc5