tags 655088 fixed-upstream
thanks

Hello Kirill, and Simon,

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Simon Paillard <spaill...@debian.org> wrote:
> tags 655088 +confirmed +forwarded
> thanks
>
> Hi Kirill,
>
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 05:59:47PM +0400, Kirill Brilliantov wrote:
>> Exaple code in rtnetlink.3 isn't work.
>> If you set  append NLM_F_ACK to nlmsg_flags and will read answer you get this
>> - error 22 (Numerical result out of range)
>>
>> This patch correct example code:
>>
>> --- rtnetlink.3.org     2012-01-08 17:19:05.000000000 +0400
>> +++ rtnetlink.3 2012-01-08 17:22:49.000000000 +0400
>> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
>>      rta = (struct rtattr *)(((char *) &req) +
>>                               NLMSG_ALIGN(req.nh.nlmsg_len));
>>      rta\->rta_type = IFLA_MTU;
>> -    rta\->rta_len = sizeof(unsigned int);
>> +    rta\->rta_len = RTA_LENGTH(sizeof(unsigned int));
>>      req.n.nlmsg_len = NLMSG_ALIGN(req.nh.nlmsg_len) +
>>                                    RTA_LENGTH(sizeof(mtu));
>
> Thanks, I've forwarded your patch upstream.

Long ago, Sergei reported the same issue, and no-one confirmed the
issue, and I did not have time to investigate, so it sat in my inbox.
Thanks for this patch.

> PS: by the way, please do let all subscribed people to receive your bug
> reports, not "maintonly", this way, upstream maintainer would have receive 
> your
> report directly (Mickael Kerrisk is following the BTS).

And that's good advice.

Thanks,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/



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