From: Vlad Dumitrescu <vla...@google.com> Taking a one-iovec example, with rtnl->seq at 42. iovlen == 1, seq becomes 43 on line 604, and a message is sent with nlmsg_seq == 43. If a response with nlmsg_seq of 42 is received, the condition being fixed in this patch would incorrectly accept it.
Fixes: 72a2ff3916e5 ("lib/libnetlink: Add a new function rtnl_talk_iov") Signed-off-by: Vlad Dumitrescu <vla...@google.com> --- lib/libnetlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/libnetlink.c b/lib/libnetlink.c index f18dceac..4d2416bf 100644 --- a/lib/libnetlink.c +++ b/lib/libnetlink.c @@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ static int __rtnl_talk_iov(struct rtnl_handle *rtnl, struct iovec *iov, if (nladdr.nl_pid != 0 || h->nlmsg_pid != rtnl->local.nl_pid || - h->nlmsg_seq > seq || h->nlmsg_seq < seq - iovlen) { + h->nlmsg_seq > seq || h->nlmsg_seq < seq - iovlen + 1) { /* Don't forget to skip that message. */ status -= NLMSG_ALIGN(len); h = (struct nlmsghdr *)((char *)h + NLMSG_ALIGN(len)); -- 2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog