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From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@fefe.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Linux kernel headers violate RFC2553
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:57:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010608195719.A4862@fefe.de> (raw)

glibc works around this, but the diet libc uses the kernel headers and
thus exports the wrong API to user land.

Here is what RFC2553 mandates:

   struct ipv6_mreq {
       struct in6_addr ipv6mr_multiaddr; /* IPv6 multicast addr */
       unsigned int    ipv6mr_interface; /* interface index */
   };

...and here is what include/linux/in6.h declares:

  struct ipv6_mreq {
	  /* IPv6 multicast address of group */
	  struct in6_addr ipv6mr_multiaddr;

	  /* local IPv6 address of interface */
	  int             ipv6mr_ifindex;
  };

Note the ipv6mr_ifindex instead of the correct ipv6mr_interface.

This wrong name is only used twice in net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c, so it should be
trivial to fix.

Felix

             reply	other threads:[~2001-06-08 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-08 17:57 Felix von Leitner [this message]
2001-06-08 19:05 ` Linux kernel headers violate RFC2553 David S. Miller
2001-06-08 19:12   ` Felix von Leitner
2001-06-08 21:31     ` David S. Miller
2001-06-08 21:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-08 23:06       ` Oliver Xymoron

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