Commit 88df8ef5 authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller

[NET]: Don't exclude broadcast addresses from is_multicast_ether_addr()

The check for multicast shouldn't exclude broadcast type addresses.
This reverts the incorrect change done in 2.6.13.

The broadcast address is a multicast address and should be excluded
from being a valid_ether_address for use in bridging or device address.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent cd8787ab
......@@ -63,10 +63,11 @@ static inline int is_zero_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
* @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
*
* Return true if the address is a multicast address.
* By definition the broadcast address is also a multicast address.
*/
static inline int is_multicast_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
{
return ((addr[0] != 0xff) && (0x01 & addr[0]));
return (0x01 & addr[0]);
}
/**
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