dhcpclient netlink bugs (was Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace)

[Herbert Xu]

Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de> wrote:
>
> Yes, the code has quite some trust into the kernel that if it answers the 
> asked question the answer is semantically correct. But to be fair, if you 
> issue a write(), you also expect the number of bytes written in return and 
> not the msec taken ;-) Will fix that and the other stuff you pointed out, 
> thanks!

I hope you checked that the message is really from the kernel (based on
saddr).  Unconnected sockets can receive messages from any user on the
host.

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