From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix erratic behavior in rt6_dump_route()
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:43:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031117124307.660df624.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311171155050.21177@rhea.tcs.hut.fi>
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:11:52 +0200 (EET)
Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi> wrote:
> Hi Dave!
>
> I noticed some erratic behavior when doing "ip -6 r". I traced the problem
> to rt6_dump_route() where we typecast NLMSG_DATA() to a rtmsg without
> checking the size of the netlink message first. Seems like ip only passes
> a rtgenmsg to the kernel when it does a dump, so we end up reading pure
> garbage when we interpret it as a rtmsg. Please apply the patch!
Thanks a lot Ville, I will review your patch a bit more and
most likely apply it later today.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-17 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-17 10:11 [PATCH] IPv6: Fix erratic behavior in rt6_dump_route() Ville Nuorvala
2003-11-17 20:43 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-11-18 2:50 ` David S. Miller
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