Re: ping: sockaddr size check

2018-10-14 Thread Florian Obser
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 08:29:34PM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote: > After calling getaddrinfo(3) we check the size of the returned socket > address to match for AF-specific cases, but I fail to see how this is > even possible. > > `hints.ai_family' is set appropiately and `res->ai_family' is checked,

ping: sockaddr size check

2018-10-13 Thread Klemens Nanni
After calling getaddrinfo(3) we check the size of the returned socket address to match for AF-specific cases, but I fail to see how this is even possible. `hints.ai_family' is set appropiately and `res->ai_family' is checked, so `res->ai_addrlen' is guaranteed to be correct. It seems like this is