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Date:	Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:39:50 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	David Bean <d_bean AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Possible bug retrieving IfIndex in newlib - winsup/cygwin/net.cc
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Hi David,

On Oct 22 15:56, David Bean wrote:
> Good Day,
>=20
> I have been working on porting Samba 4.11 to Cygwin for a few days and ra=
n into an odd issue. Samba configures its interfaces in several steps, but =
it relies pretty heavily on getting information from the interface structur=
es populated by Cygwin. While I was walking through the call map I noticed =
a lot of the data is populated by get_ifs and that routine may have a bug i=
n its handling of IfIndex. Basically it seems to copy the IPv4 index at all=
 times even though it may need Ipv6Index.
>=20
> the same code exists at line 1904 and 1808 as well. I believe the current=
 code may fail to retrieve the correct adapter index if IPv6 is enabled on =
the interface.
> this is current code:  ifp->ifa_hwdata.ifa_ifindex =3D pap->IfIndex;
>=20
> I think it should be:  ifp->ifa_hwdata.ifa_ifindex =3D (sa->sa_family =3D=
=3D AF_INET
>                                          ? pap->IfIndex : pap->Ipv6Index);
>=20
> This is the model used by the lines retrieving the other elements with du=
al locations on the windows side.
>=20
> I am unable to debug this to confirm it, but please let me know if this i=
s actually a bug or not.

The code in line 1808 only handles AF_INET anyway, so it shouldn't
use IpV6IfIndex.  As for line 1904, I didn't perform this distinction
because in all my testing the indices were the same.

Do you have proof that this isn't always the case?  If so, I check in
a patch.


Thanks,
Corinna

--=20
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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