netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: fix netconsole IPv6 setup

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 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:	Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:09:18 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netpoll: fix netconsole IPv6 setup

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net> wrote:
> 2014-02-06, 12:34:10 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net> wrote:
>> >  net/core/netpoll.c | 4 +++-
>> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
>> > index c03f3de..a664f78 100644
>> > --- a/net/core/netpoll.c
>> > +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
>> > @@ -948,6 +948,7 @@ int netpoll_parse_options(struct netpoll *np, char *opt)
>> >  {
>> >         char *cur=opt, *delim;
>> >         int ipv6;
>> > +       bool ipversion_set = false;
>> >
>>
>> Or initialize 'ipv6' to -1 and then check if it is -1?
>
> It's overwritten when we parse the remote address. And np->ipv6 is a
> bool, so we can't store it there either.
>


Yeah, I misunderstood the problem. Your fix looks good.

Acked-by: Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>

For net-next, I think we should change bool np->ipv6 to int np->ip_version,
so that we can tell if it is set or not.

Thanks!
--
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