From: shemminger <shemminger>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:31:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix endless loop in netlink error handling.
X-Git-Tag: ss-060314~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4cca16f20e92a97399d5814fc810af66ce0581d8;p=thirdparty%2Fiproute2.git

Fix endless loop in netlink error handling.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0b4d158a0..49a1e9cf0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
+2006-03-10  Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
+
+	* Fix endless loop in netlink error handling
+
 2006-03-10  Russell Stuart <russell-lartc@stuart.id.au>
 
 	* Fix missing memset in tc sample
 
-2006-03-10  shemminger  <shemminger@osdl.org>
+2006-03-10  Stephen Hemminger  <shemminger@osdl.org>
 
 	* Change default lnstat count to 1
 	* Update to 2.6.16 headers
diff --git a/lib/libnetlink.c b/lib/libnetlink.c
index 24e1f0b6f..67951fe7d 100644
--- a/lib/libnetlink.c
+++ b/lib/libnetlink.c
@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ int rtnl_talk(struct rtnl_handle *rtnl, struct nlmsghdr *n, pid_t peer,
 					if (err < 0)
 						return err;
 				}
+				/* Don't forget to skip that message. */
+				status -= NLMSG_ALIGN(len);
+				h = (struct nlmsghdr*)((char*)h + NLMSG_ALIGN(len));
 				continue;
 			}