Bug#1110137: netplugd is failing to perform ifup/down notifications as link state changes

[Hoyer, David]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:04:11 +0000 "Hoyer, David" <david.ho...@netapp.com> 
wrote:
> Package: netplug
> Version: 1.2.9.2-5
> Debian Release: Trixie
> Kernel: 6.12.17-1
>
> I have found that netplugd is reporting an error in the journal indicating it 
> is killing a process when a link state transition happens.

>
> Example journal message:
> Jul 28 19:36:31 eos-a netplugd[2405]: /etc/netplug/netplug eth0 in -> pid 2405
> Jul 28 19:36:31 eos-a netplugd[2404]: Unexpected child 1106527440 exited with 
> status 0
>
> And as a result it appears that the scripts in /etc/network/if-* are not 
> getting called so our scripts which give our application link state changes 
> are not being called.

>
> I backed out the patch 70no-executable-stack.patch and rebuilt that and then 
> everything started working as I was expecting.

>
>
I worked out the bug in the 70no-executable-stack.patch.   I realize this is 
not in the correct form for a Debian patch.  I am hoping the maintainers get 
this rolled into a Trixie fix for this package.

diff --git a/if_info.c b/if_info.c
index fbf6ffd..d2c8f02 100644
--- a/if_info.c
+++ b/if_info.c
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ void ifsm_scriptdone(pid_t pid, int exitstatus)

     int find_pid(struct if_info *i, void *arg) {
         pid_t pid = *(pid_t *)(((void **)arg)[0]);
-        struct if_info **info = (struct if_info **)(((void **)arg)[0]);
+        struct if_info **info = (struct if_info **)(((void **)arg)[1]);

         if (i->worker == pid) {
             *info = i;