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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html