netdev - Re: resend [PATCH 2/5 2.6.21] L2TP: Changes to existing ppp and socket kernel headers for L2TP

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:18:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jchapman@...alix.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: resend [PATCH 2/5 2.6.21] L2TP: Changes to existing ppp and
 socket kernel headers for L2TP

From: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 18:47:24 +0100

> Add struct sockaddr_pppol2tp to carry L2TP-specific address
> information for the PPPoX (PPPoL2TP) socket. Unfortunately we can't
> use the union inside struct sockaddr_pppox because the L2TP-specific
> data is larger than the current size of the union and we must preserve
> the size of struct sockaddr_pppox for binary compatibility.
> 
> Also add a PPPIOCGL2TPSTATS ioctl to allow userspace to obtain
> L2TP counters and state from the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>

This looks OK, patch applied to net-2.6.23, thanks.

> Index: linux-2.6.21/include/linux/socket.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21.orig/include/linux/socket.h
> +++ linux-2.6.21/include/linux/socket.h
> @@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ struct ucred {
>  #define SOL_DCCP	269
>  #define SOL_NETLINK	270
>  #define SOL_TIPC	271
> +#define SOL_PPPOL2TP	272

RXRPC has already taken value 272 so I changed this
to use the next available value, 273.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html