netdev - Re: [LARTC] [BUG?] ip ru flush && RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range

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Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:19:51 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
CC:	Luciano Ruete <luciano@...men.org.ar>, lartc@...lman.ds9a.nl,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [LARTC] [BUG?] ip ru flush && RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result
 out of range

Thomas Graf wrote:
> * Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> 2007-03-19 06:54
> 
>>Thomas, I can't see a clean way to fix this right now that
>>doesn't either bloat struct nla_policy or removes FRA_SRC/FRA_DST
>>from the policy, could you please look into this? Thanks.
> 
> 
> I guess the only way is to remove FRA_SRC/FRA_DST from the policy
> and validate it in configure() based on src_len/dst_len.


Its not too pretty, but I agree. This patch fixes the problem.
I'll also push it to -stable.

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