Re: 2.5.70-bk+ broken networking

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Patrick Mansfield wrote:

quoted

[root@elm3b79 root]# ifup eth0
sender address length == 0

This is a bug introduced by a coding style cleanup, fix below.


- James
-- 
James Morris
[off-list ref]

--- bk.pending/net/core/iovec.c	2003-06-05 11:12:59.000000000 +1000
+++ bk.w1/net/core/iovec.c	2003-06-05 13:30:06.000000000 +1000

@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ int verify_iovec(struct msghdr *m, struc
 						  address);
 			if (err < 0)
 				return err;
-			m->msg_name = address;
-		} else
-			m->msg_name = NULL;
-	}
+		}
+		m->msg_name = address;
+	} else
+		m->msg_name = NULL;
 
 	size = m->msg_iovlen * sizeof(struct iovec);
 	if (copy_from_user(iov, m->msg_iov, size))