The patch you cite is a fix for

        https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues/333

which causes infinite loops.

There's another bug wherein packets aren't seen by apps that set the read 
timeout to 0 and packets don't come in at a sufficiently high rate, the packets 
are dropped and the app doesn't see them:

        https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues/335

and the fix for that is

        
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/ee4085152260466ea845d9e9109a251a39ded93b

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