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authorbrooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org>2004-09-01 18:22:14 +0000
committerbrooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org>2004-09-01 18:22:14 +0000
commitba918da2a51c9e7f2352076e0fbab5f3a82f8104 (patch)
tree0fdc8d4c7e4a1a23a7a359dc70fbd001b86bbe22 /sys/net
parent7f91bb5d9aea96d133ac63690a8e5483654c4503 (diff)
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Use a spare byte in struct if_data to store the structure size without
increasing it. Add code to ifconfig to use this size to find the sockaddr_dl after the struct if_data in the routing message. This allows struct if_data to grow (up to 255 bytes) without breaking ifconfig. Submitted by: peter
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/net')
-rw-r--r--sys/net/if.c1
-rw-r--r--sys/net/if.h1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys/net/if.c b/sys/net/if.c
index 0bb5389..ef48f1e 100644
--- a/sys/net/if.c
+++ b/sys/net/if.c
@@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ if_attach(struct ifnet *ifp)
if_index = ifp->if_index;
if (if_index >= if_indexlim)
if_grow();
+ ifp->if_data.ifi_datalen = sizeof(struct if_data);
ifnet_byindex(ifp->if_index) = ifp;
ifdev_byindex(ifp->if_index) = make_dev(&net_cdevsw,
diff --git a/sys/net/if.h b/sys/net/if.h
index 5a005c9..95389e6 100644
--- a/sys/net/if.h
+++ b/sys/net/if.h
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ struct if_data {
u_char ifi_link_state; /* current link state */
u_char ifi_recvquota; /* polling quota for receive intrs */
u_char ifi_xmitquota; /* polling quota for xmit intrs */
+ u_char ifi_datalen; /* length of this data struct */
u_long ifi_mtu; /* maximum transmission unit */
u_long ifi_metric; /* routing metric (external only) */
u_long ifi_baudrate; /* linespeed */
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