Re: Current wireless-testing breaks libpcap: mr_alen should be set

[Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>]

Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:00:48AM CET, proski@gnu.org wrote:
>Hello!
>
>The current wireless-testing appears to have some non-wireless bits from
>the upcoming Linux 2.6.34.  As a result, libpcap and all capture
>programs that use it are broken.
>
>This patch to libpcap helps:
>
>--- a/pcap-linux.c
>+++ b/pcap-linux.c
>@@ -1563,6 +1563,7 @@ live_open_new(pcap_t *handle, const char
> 			memset(&mr, 0, sizeof(mr));
> 			mr.mr_ifindex = handle->md.ifindex;
> 			mr.mr_type    = PACKET_MR_PROMISC;
>+			mr.mr_alen    = 6;
> 			if (setsockopt(sock_fd, SOL_PACKET,
> 				PACKET_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, &mr, sizeof(mr)) == -1)
> 			{
>
>libpcap git doesn't have the fix yet.
>
>The breakage must be coming from the commit 914c8ad2 by Jiri Pirko to
>net/packet/af_packet.c
>
>I think it's very unhelpful to introduce patches that break significant
>userspace functionality without giving the affected programs an advance
>warning.
>
>Also, pulling bleeding edge stuff into wireless-testing before rc1
>appears to be either a mistake or a bad decision.
>
>Sorry for cross-post, but it's an urgent issue.  Repliers are encouraged
>to trim the recipient list as necessary.

Sorry about this. Corrected patch will follow.

Jirka
>
>-- 
>Regards,
>Pavel Roskin