I was trying to setup ipv6 RIP routing this weekend when I noticed that while
routes were being broadcast by my OpenBSD 5.4 routers running route6d, none
were accepting any routes from peers. I ran the daemon in debug mode (-d) and
noticed that every inbound route-advertisement packet was met with an error
message: "IPv6 packet information cannot be retrieved".
Looking into the source pointed to the riprecv function where it is indicating
that it was unable to receive any ancilliary data from the kernel as the result
of a recvmsg call. Reading the code I found that it is attempting to extract
two ancilliary data records (ipv6 pkt info and ipv6 hoplimit) from the message,
but is only allocating the space for one (the ipv6 pkt info).
I was able to correct this and get the routing daemon to accept routes by
modifying the declaration of cmsgbuf from:
union {
struct cmsghdr hdr;
u_char buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(struct in6_pktinfo))];
} cmsgbuf;
To:
union {
struct cmsghdr hdr;
u_char buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(struct in6_pktinfo)) +
CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))];
} cmsgbuf;
So that the hop limit required size is included as well. Unfortunately I am
unable to submit a formal diff or patch at this time, but I still wanted to let
everyone know about this so that it can be fixed in 5.5.
Asa Yeamans
