[PATCH] Fix crash when system has no ipv6 address [BZ #17125]

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Jul 8 12:16:00 GMT 2014


Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> writes:

> The test case bug-ga2 crashes when the system it is running on has no
> ipv6 address configured.  This is because we point the cache (that is
> freed on exit) to a static variable if there is no ipv6 address, which
> later results in freeing an invalid pointer.

Why is this not working?

    .usecnt = 1,	/* Make sure we never try to delete this entry.  */

Andreas.

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