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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Bug 447812] New: Netlink messages from "tc" to sch_netem module are not interpreted correctly
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:32:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4835A00E.2050908@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080522111835.GQ20815@postel.suug.ch>

> I looked at netrt_rtnetlink.c, the problem is unrelated. Look at
> the code when adding the source attribtue:
> 
>   struct rtattr *rtap;
> 
>   if (source) {
>     rtap +=  rtap->rta_len;
> 
> You want to increment rtap by rta_len bytes, not rta_len*sizeof(*rtap)
> bytes.
> 
> Also, the code uses RTA_LENGTH() to calculate attributes sizes which
> is wrong, it must use RTA_SPACE() as RTA_LENGTH() does not align the
> actual data part and thus the next attribute is unaligned if the data
> of the previous attribute is not aligned to 4 bytes.

I'll make the fixes in the netperf code - thanks, hope the bugs there 
weren't too big a distraction.

rick jones


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-22 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 21:45 Fwd: [Bug 447812] New: Netlink messages from "tc" to sch_netem module are not interpreted correctly Dave Jones
2008-05-21 22:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-22  0:21   ` Thomas Graf
2008-05-22  0:57     ` Rick Jones
2008-05-22 11:18       ` Thomas Graf
2008-05-22 16:32         ` Rick Jones [this message]
2008-05-22 11:37     ` [NETLINK]: Fix nla_parse_nested_compat() to call nla_parse() directly Thomas Graf
2008-05-22 12:45       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-22 17:49         ` David Miller
2008-05-22 18:02           ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-22 18:11             ` David Miller
2008-05-21 22:16 ` Fwd: [Bug 447812] New: Netlink messages from "tc" to sch_netem module are not interpreted correctly Rick Jones
2008-05-21 22:36   ` Rick Jones

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