netdev - Re: IPV6_PKTINFO socket option

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] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:02:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV6_PKTINFO socket option

From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:16:51 +0100

>  2. On sparc64 with the same kernel IPV6_PKTINFO works without problems, even pulls
>     out the cmsg fields correctly. Conversely, when trying to set the IPV6_RECVPKTINFO
>     sticky option on the socket, no cmsg fields are generated. 
>     The kernel is of the same date and revision as the i386 kernel - library issue ???
>     It is very annoying, since the application needs to run on both architectures.

Almost certainly a compat layer bug in the kernel, it would
affect 32-bit applications on powerpc64 and similar if so.
-
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