[Olsr-dev] we broke IPv6 in olsrd 0.6.5.1

Ferry Huberts (spam-protected)
Fri Feb 22 12:16:57 CET 2013


no, we need ... != 1
see my other email

I also checked all commits for this semantic mistake and found none.
The other commits that changed inet_pton invocations correctly checked 
for != 1

On 22/02/13 12:15, Saverio Proto wrote:
> Yes the ! works. I think we well identified the problem.
>
> Saverio
>
>
> 2013/2/22 Ferry Huberts <(spam-protected)>:
>> sorry, I was too fast myself, try with
>>
>>> if (inet_pton(AF_INET6, addr6, &tmp_ip.v6) != 1) {
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22/02/13 12:08, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>>>
>>> Don't revert yet.
>>>
>>> I think Henning got the semantics wrong:
>>>
>>>> RETURN VALUE
>>>>         inet_pton() returns 1 on success (network address was
>>>> successfully converted).  0 is returned if src does not contain a
>>>> character
>>>>         string  representing  a valid network address in the specified
>>>> address family.  If af does not contain a valid address family, -1
>>>>         is returned and errno is set to EAFNOSUPPORT.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please try (add the '!')
>>>
>>>>   if (!inet_pton(AF_INET6, addr6, &tmp_ip.v6)) {
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22/02/13 12:01, Saverio Proto wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Reverting the commit fixes the problem !!! :)
>>>>
>>>> Saverio
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2013/2/22 Saverio Proto <(spam-protected)>:
>>>>>
>>>>> I did git bisect:
>>>>>
>>>>> (spam-protected):/usr/src/olsrd# git bisect good
>>>>> b3f05653fc085193504218e47458891acf7c495d is the first bad commit
>>>>> commit b3f05653fc085193504218e47458891acf7c495d
>>>>> Author: Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)>
>>>>> Date:   Mon Oct 22 15:08:56 2012 +0200
>>>>>
>>>>>           Check inet_pton return value
>>>>>
>>>>>           Coverity:
>>>>>
>>>>>           CID 739622 (#1 of 1): Unchecked return value (CHECKED_RETURN)
>>>>>           At (8): Calling function "inet_pton(int, char const *
>>>>> restrict, void * restrict)" without checking return value (as is done
>>>>> elsewhere 22 out of 25 times).
>>>>>
>>>>>           Signed-off-by: Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)>
>>>>>
>>>>> :040000 040000 72830d524096c795b27a1ef1155d4bff6c6b0579
>>>>> f79ae205a92b19e0ba2347972d457b260eb7bd48 M      src
>>>>> (spam-protected):/usr/src/olsrd#
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2013/2/22 Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We had an important fix of IPv6 in 0.6.5.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See commit:
>>>>>> 25c1167350e7a6d42c2b3938ede0d6b118efa28a
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Henning Rogge
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 02/22/2013 10:43 AM, Saverio Proto wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I upgraded some nodes in Ninux to 0.6.5.1
>>>>>>> same configuration as always.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I see that 0.6.5.1 and pre-0.6.3  are not compatible, links in IPv6 do
>>>>>>> not come up.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I will do some further tests asap and I will try to track the problem
>>>>>>> with git bisect, but now I have to rush to work so don't expect
>>>>>>> another email very soon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
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>>>
>>
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