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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Fix erratic behavior in rt6_dump_route()
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:43:07 -0800
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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.