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-rw-r--r--sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c23
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/netintro.49
-rw-r--r--sys/net/if.c7
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c
index e46dcdb..fd20d17 100644
--- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c
+++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c
@@ -906,19 +906,20 @@ status(const struct afswtch *afp, const struct sockaddr_dl *sdl,
ifr.ifr_buffer.buffer = descr;
ifr.ifr_buffer.length = descrlen;
if (ioctl(s, SIOCGIFDESCR, &ifr) == 0) {
- if (strlen(descr) > 0)
- printf("\tdescription: %s\n", descr);
- break;
- } else if (errno == ENAMETOOLONG)
- descrlen = ifr.ifr_buffer.length;
- else
- break;
- } else {
+ if (ifr.ifr_buffer.buffer == descr) {
+ if (strlen(descr) > 0)
+ printf("\tdescription: %s\n",
+ descr);
+ } else if (ifr.ifr_buffer.length > descrlen) {
+ descrlen = ifr.ifr_buffer.length;
+ continue;
+ }
+ }
+ } else
warn("unable to allocate memory for interface"
"description");
- break;
- }
- };
+ break;
+ }
if (ioctl(s, SIOCGIFCAP, (caddr_t)&ifr) == 0) {
if (ifr.ifr_curcap != 0) {
diff --git a/share/man/man4/netintro.4 b/share/man/man4/netintro.4
index 348a13e..3e98940 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/netintro.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/netintro.4
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)netintro.4 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/30/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 26, 2010
+.Dd April 14, 2010
.Dt NETINTRO 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -292,8 +292,11 @@ field of
struct passed in as parameter, and the length would include
the terminating nul character.
If there is not enough space to hold the interface length,
-no copy would be done and an
-error would be returned.
+no copy would be done and the
+.Va buffer
+field of
+.Va ifru_buffer
+would be set to NULL.
The kernel will store the buffer length in the
.Va length
field upon return, regardless whether the buffer itself is
diff --git a/sys/net/if.c b/sys/net/if.c
index 0773c2b..4f09252 100644
--- a/sys/net/if.c
+++ b/sys/net/if.c
@@ -2115,14 +2115,13 @@ ifhwioctl(u_long cmd, struct ifnet *ifp, caddr_t data, struct thread *td)
case SIOCGIFDESCR:
error = 0;
sx_slock(&ifdescr_sx);
- if (ifp->if_description == NULL) {
- ifr->ifr_buffer.length = 0;
+ if (ifp->if_description == NULL)
error = ENOMSG;
- } else {
+ else {
/* space for terminating nul */
descrlen = strlen(ifp->if_description) + 1;
if (ifr->ifr_buffer.length < descrlen)
- error = ENAMETOOLONG;
+ ifr->ifr_buffer.buffer = NULL;
else
error = copyout(ifp->if_description,
ifr->ifr_buffer.buffer, descrlen);
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