netdev - Re: ping -f is broken in iputils 20121011

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Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:37:57 +0300
From:	Mohammad Alsaleh <msal@...mail.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Jan Synacek <jsynacek@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: ping -f is broken in iputils 20121011

>On 10/31/2012 10:11 AM, Mohammad Alsaleh wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:52:49PM +0300, Mohammad Alsaleh wrote:
>>> As explained in this bug report(1). ping -f seems to be broken in
>>> iputils 20121011.
>>>
>>> (1) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32306
>> 
>> Bisected to commit 8feb586c4c6df32badb159947ed233898891aecd
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>
>Can you please try the attached patch?
>
>-- 
>Jan Synacek
>Software Engineer, BaseOS team Brno, Red Hat
>
>--- iputils-s20121011/ping_common.h	2012-11-05 10:07:40.065281888
>+0100
>+++ iputils-s20121011-new/ping_common.h	2012-11-05 10:07:22.001268362
>+0100
>@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static inline void write_stdout(const ch
> 	do {
> 		cc = write(STDOUT_FILENO, str + o, len - o);
> 		o += cc;
>-	} while (len >= o || cc < 0);
>+	} while (len > o || cc < 0);
> }
> 
> /*
>--- iputils-s20121011/ping_common.c	2012-11-05 10:07:40.066281889
>+0100
>+++ iputils-s20121011-new/ping_common.c	2012-11-05 10:07:22.007268368
>+0100
>@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ restamp:
> 		if (!csfailed)
> 			write_stdout("\b \b", 3);
> 		else
>-			write_stdout("\bC", 1);
>+			write_stdout("\bC", 2);
> 	} else {
> 		int i;
> 		__u8 *cp, *dp;
>

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I can confirm the patch fixes the bug.
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