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

On 2/16/11 8:10 AM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Phil Karn [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 2/16/11 4:51 AM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Phil Karn [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.

If it's reserved, then it's up to the user to reserve it.

No.

See:
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1Q-2005.pdf

Well, then I guess we all know better than the user. That's the Windows
Way...no, wait, I thought this is Linux.

The fact is that I did encounter a misconfigured switch using vlan 4095,
and because of this off-by-one error I was unable to talk to it and fix it.

I was hoping I wouldn't have to patch every new kernel I install.