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Re: Off-by-one error in net/8021q/vlan.c

From: richard -rw- weinberger <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-16 12:51:35

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Phil Karn [off-list ref] wrote:
The range check on vlan_id in register_vlan_device is off by one, and it
prevents the creation of a vlan interface for vlan ID 4095. (OSX allows
this, I checked.)
Then OSX should fix their code. 4095 is reserved.

//richard
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Here's the trivial patch:
--- linux-2.6.37/net/8021q/vlan.c~      2011-01-04 16:50:19.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.37/net/8021q/vlan.c       2011-02-16 02:43:13.988812958 -0800
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
       char name[IFNAMSIZ];
       int err;

-       if (vlan_id >= VLAN_VID_MASK)
+       if (vlan_id > VLAN_VID_MASK)
               return -ERANGE;

       err = vlan_check_real_dev(real_dev, vlan_id);
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-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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