<<On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:18:57 -0700 (PDT), Archie Cobbs <arc...@whistle.com> said:
> Should the kernel insure that ifr->ifr_addr.sa_len is always at > least sizeof(ifr->ifr_addr), or should the user programs adjust > their pointer increment algorithm? At first I assumed the latter > answer (patches below) but now am not so sure. The user programs should not use SIOCGIFCONF. > It doesn't appear the net/if.c:ifioctl() function is protected > at all by splnet(), even though it is accessing all kinds of > networking information. Is this a race condition? No. ifioctl() should only be called from the ioctl syscall or other contexts where preemption is not an issue. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same woll...@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
