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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, joe@perches.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] iscsi: bugfix for displaying IPv6 address
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:20:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225743622.3619.67.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081103121600.b3a8eef2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 12:16 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:05:17 -0700
> Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Notice that ip is a u8 *, so currently every other byte is
> > being truncated here.
> > 
> 
> I don't understand that bug description.  The code looks OK to me?

> > -		str += sprintf(str, NIP6_FMT, ntohs(ip[0]), ntohs(ip[1]),
> > -			       ntohs(ip[2]), ntohs(ip[3]), ntohs(ip[4]),
> > -			       ntohs(ip[5]), ntohs(ip[6]), ntohs(ip[7]));
> > +		str += sprintf(str, "%p6", ip);

If ip is a u8 * these ntohs are operating on bytes which is bogus, and
NIP6_FMT expects to get 8 u16s, not 8 u8s.

johannes

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28  4:05 [RFC PATCH 2/5] iscsi: bugfix for displaying IPv6 address Harvey Harrison
2008-11-03 20:16 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 20:20   ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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