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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] alfred: Allow setting the source mac via unix sock
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:39:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11933942.EqGnTx1S2H@bentobox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455666670-32409-1-git-send-email-dominik@heidler.eu>

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On Wednesday 17 February 2016 00:51:10 Dominik Heidler wrote:
> The alfred client sets the mac to zero by default
> so this shouldn't break existing behaviour.

This also may not to be true. Some users of alfred may not set the source in 
alfred_data and thus they may end up with random bytes when reusing a buffer, 
allocating a buffer without memset or using an uninitialized buffer on stack.

It is bad practice to send uninitialized bytes around but I just wanted to 
point out that potential problem.

Your patch also doesn't explain why this feature may be required.

Btw. you can grep for "data_source" to find the code related to the 
sync/forwarded rules of alfred.

Kind regards,
	Sven

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-17  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-16 23:51 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] alfred: Allow setting the source mac via unix sock Dominik Heidler
2016-02-17  8:10 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-02-17  8:39 ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
2016-02-17 10:36   ` Dominik Heidler
2016-03-11 15:27     ` Simon Wunderlich

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