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From: James Antill <james@and.org>
To: Olaf Kirch <okir@caldera.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, security-audit@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Traceroute without s bit
Date: 06 Dec 2000 10:35:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nnitoxh8b1.fsf@code.and.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001206135019.L9533@monad.caldera.de>
In-Reply-To: Olaf Kirch's message of "Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:50:19 +0100"

Olaf Kirch <okir@caldera.de> writes:

>  3.	There seems to be a bug somewhere in the handling of poll().
> 	If you observe the traceroute process with strace, you'll
> 	notice that it starts spinning madly after receiving the
> 	first bunch of packets (those with ttl 1).
> 
> 	13:43:02 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLERR}], 1, 5) = 0
> 	13:43:02 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLERR}], 1, 5) = 0
> 	13:43:02 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLERR}], 1, 5) = 0
> 	13:43:02 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLERR}], 1, 5) = 0
> 	...
> 
> 	I.e. the poll call returns as if it had timed out, but it
> 	hasn't.

 I've just looked at it, but I'm pretty sure this is a bug in your
code. This should fix it...

--- traceroute.c.orig	Wed Dec  6 10:33:48 2000
+++ traceroute.c	Wed Dec  6 10:34:06 2000
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
 				timeout = hop->nextsend;
 		}
 
-		poll(pfd, m, timeout - now);
+		poll(pfd, m, (timeout - now) * 1000);
 
 		/* Receive any pending ICMP errors */
 		for (n = 0; n < m; n++) {


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-06 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-06 12:50 Traceroute without s bit Olaf Kirch
2000-12-06 13:09 ` Andi Kleen
2000-12-06 15:07   ` Olaf Kirch
2000-12-06 16:27     ` Andi Kleen
2000-12-06 15:35 ` James Antill [this message]
2000-12-06 16:29   ` Olaf Kirch

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