[PATCH] iproute: ensure scope is correctly initialised

Ron Yorston rmy at pobox.com
Fri Aug 5 18:39:31 UTC 2016


Code in iproute.c attempted to avoid assigning values to structure
elements which were know to be zero unless the value to be assigned
was non-zero.

Commit ce4bc1ed added some more such cases.  However, the treatment
of req.r.rtm_scope was incorrect.  Although this saved a few bytes it
resulted in incorrect behaviour like:

   $ sudo busybox ip route add 192.168.0.0/24 via 10.98.106.9 dev wlan0
   ip: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument

In practice this attempt at optimisation results in no saving, so
remove it.

Reported-by: Natanael Copa <ncopa at alpinelinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy at pobox.com>
---
 networking/libiproute/iproute.c | 15 +++++----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/networking/libiproute/iproute.c b/networking/libiproute/iproute.c
index e674e9a..8db9aef 100644
--- a/networking/libiproute/iproute.c
+++ b/networking/libiproute/iproute.c
@@ -356,18 +356,13 @@ IF_FEATURE_IP_RULE(ARG_table,)
 	req.n.nlmsg_flags = NLM_F_REQUEST | flags;
 	req.n.nlmsg_type = cmd;
 	req.r.rtm_family = preferred_family;
-	if (RT_TABLE_MAIN != 0) /* if it is zero, memset already did it */
-		req.r.rtm_table = RT_TABLE_MAIN;
-	if (RT_SCOPE_NOWHERE != 0)
-		req.r.rtm_scope = RT_SCOPE_NOWHERE;
+	req.r.rtm_table = RT_TABLE_MAIN;
+	req.r.rtm_scope = RT_SCOPE_NOWHERE;
 
 	if (cmd != RTM_DELROUTE) {
-		if (RTPROT_BOOT != 0)
-			req.r.rtm_protocol = RTPROT_BOOT;
-		if (RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE != 0)
-			req.r.rtm_scope = RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE;
-		if (RTN_UNICAST != 0)
-			req.r.rtm_type = RTN_UNICAST;
+		req.r.rtm_protocol = RTPROT_BOOT;
+		req.r.rtm_scope = RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE;
+		req.r.rtm_type = RTN_UNICAST;
 	}
 
 	mxrta->rta_type = RTA_METRICS;
-- 
2.7.4



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