Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 version (050929)

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>]

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 23:34:25 +0200 (CEST)
Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > There is an new minor update to iproute2 utilities available:
> > 	http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2/download/iproute2-050929.tar.gz
> 
> 
> It hangs on "ip rule flush". Tested on 2.6.13.2.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
>  			Krzysztof Olędzki

Fixed by this patch (in next release)

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When assigning an ip address to an ethernet adapter, the newest 
(050929) version of 'ip addr' hangs while older versions worked. 
The problem was traced to be a removed initialisation. The patch 
below corrects this problem.

Regards,
Jerome Borsboom

--- iproute2-050929/lib/libnetlink.c    2005-09-21 21:33:18.000000000 +0200
+++ iproute2-050929/lib/libnetlink.c    2005-10-04 13:42:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -235,7 +235,10 @@
        unsigned seq;
        struct nlmsghdr *h;
        struct sockaddr_nl nladdr;
-       struct iovec iov;
+       struct iovec iov = {
+               .iov_base = (void*)n,
+               .iov_len = n->nlmsg_len
+       };
        struct msghdr msg = {
                .msg_name = &nladdr,
                .msg_namelen = sizeof(nladdr),

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger