Re: 2.5.70-bk+ broken networking

Stephen Hemminger (shemminger@osdl.org)
Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:55:12 -0700


On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:25:58 +1000 (EST)
James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
>
> > [root@elm3b79 root]# ifup eth0
> > sender address length == 0
>
> This is a bug introduced by a coding style cleanup, fix below.
>
>
> - James
> --
> James Morris
> <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
>
> --- bk.pending/net/core/iovec.c 2003-06-05 11:12:59.000000000 +1000
> +++ bk.w1/net/core/iovec.c 2003-06-05 13:30:06.000000000 +1000
> @@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ int verify_iovec(struct msghdr *m, struc
> address);
> if (err < 0)
> return err;
> - m->msg_name = address;
> - } else
> - m->msg_name = NULL;
> - }
> + }
> + m->msg_name = address;
> + } else
> + m->msg_name = NULL;
>
> size = m->msg_iovlen * sizeof(struct iovec);
> if (copy_from_user(iov, m->msg_iov, size))

Thanks, this works for me. I will see if it fixes the other gnome mystery as well.
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