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manpages: getifaddrs(3) and rtnetlink(7) give wrong type for interface stats

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 rtnetlink(7) give wrong type for interface stats)
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From: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: manpages: getifaddrs(3) and rtnetlink(7) give wrong type for interface stats

Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 15:50:26 +0200

Package: manpages
Version: 3.21-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi,

getifaddrs(3) and rtnetlink(7) both refer to struct net_device_stats,
but the actual struct returned is rtnl_link_stats (I noticed this
because using net_device_stats leads to completely bogus values on
64bit).  As far as I can tell struct net_device_stats is used inside the
kernel, but net/core/rtnetlink.c:rtnl_fill_ifinfo() exports that
information as struct rtnl_link_stats in the netlink message.

--- manpages-3.21.orig/man7/rtnetlink.7
+++ manpages-3.21/man7/rtnetlink.7
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 T}:Interface Statistics.
 .TE
 .sp
-The value type for IFLA_STATS is \fIstruct net_device_stats\fP.
+The value type for IFLA_STATS is \fIstruct rtnl_link_stats\fP.
 .TP
 .BR RTM_NEWADDR ", " RTM_DELADDR ", " RTM_GETADDR
 Add, remove or receive information about an IP address associated with
--- manpages-3.21.orig/man3/getifaddrs.3
+++ manpages-3.21/man3/getifaddrs.3
@@ -191,9 +191,9 @@
 In this case, the
 .I ifa_data
 field may contain a pointer to a
-.IR "struct net_device_stats" ,
+.IR "struct rtnl_link_stats" ,
 defined in
-.IR <linux/netdevice.h> ,
+.IR <linux/if_link.h> ,
 which contains various interface attributes and statistics.
 .SH EXAMPLE
 The program below demonstrates the use of

Cheers,
Julien

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From: Simon Paillard <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Bug#526778: fixed in manpages 3.42-1

Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:17:41 +0000

Source: manpages
Source-Version: 3.42-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:50:38 +0200
Source: manpages
Binary: manpages manpages-dev
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.42-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Simon Paillard <[email protected]>
Description: 
 manpages   - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
 manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
Closes: 383296 526778 538641 609033 660479 671514 671515 673436 673873 673875 674051 679498
Changes: 
 manpages (3.42-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Simon Paillard ]
   * Add myself to Uploaders
   * Imported Upstream version 3.42:
     . new manpages: get_robust_list.2 mallinfo.3 malloc_info.3 malloc_stats.3
     . remove outdated links: path_resolution.2 epoll.4 fifo.4 futex.4
       complex.5 environ.5
     . Fix repeated word in memchr.3 (Closes: #679498)
     . isgreater.3: arguments must be real-floating (Closes: #609033)
     . utf-8.7: clarifications (Closes: #538641)
     . getaddrinfo.3: note that AI_ADDRCONFIG is not affected by loopback
       addresses (Closes: #660479)
     . Fix "rtnetlink(7): Line in table too long" (Closes: #674051)
     . Fix "netlink(7): Line in table is too long" (Closes: #673875)
     . Fix "netdevice(7): Line in table too long" (Closes: #673873)
     . Fix "suffixes(7): Warnings from "grotty"" (Closes: #673436)
     . Fix "ioctl_list(2): table wider than line width" (Closes: #671515)
     . Fix groff warnings console_codes(4) (Closes: #671514)
     . netlink.7: *_pid fields are not process but port id (Closes: #383296)
   * Drop obsolete formatting patch: gettimeofday.2 wprintf.3 setnetgrent.3
   * Drop patch getgid.2, getuid.2: now documented by upstream credentials(7)
   * Drop inconsistent coding style patch: bsearch.3 qsort.3
   * iconv.3: remove Debian patch, accepted upstream and moved to NOTES
   * Remove old links added 10y ago due to debian specific man-db
   * fclose.3: drop debian patches, mark the remaining as rejected upstream
   * Remove mallinfo.3 from missing.7, added in upstream 3.41
   * Drop outdated debian/readme
   * getifaddrs.3, rtnetlink.7: stats interface is struct rtnl_link_stats, not
     net_device_stats (Closes: #526778) - thanks to Julien Cristau
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