[PATCH] BSD: If route socket overflows, sync drivers to system interfaces

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sat Feb 6 08:58:11 EST 2021


On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 02:16:43PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> Messages such as RTM_IFNFO or RTM_IFANNOUNCE could have been lost.
> As such, sync the state of our internal driver to the state of the
> system interfaces as reports by getifaddrs(2).
> 
> This change requires the routing socket be placed in non-blocking
> mode. While here, set the routing and inet sockets to close on exec.
> 
> BSD's that support SO_RERROR include NetBSD and DragonFly.
> There is a review underway to add this to FreeBSD.

Thanks, applied.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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