On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:29:59AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:10:29PM -0800, David Stevens wrote:
> > Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote on 11/01/2005 09:47:02 PM:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:37:43PM +0800, Yan Zheng wrote:
> > > > You can reproduce this bug by follow codes. This program will cause a
> > > > change to include report even though the first socket's filter mode is
> > > > exclude.
> > >
> > > I've not clearly understood the nature of the bug, does it also
> > > affect 2.4 ? Marcelo will be releasing 2.4.32 in a few days, so
> > > it would be wise to merge the fix soon.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Willy
> > >
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > Multicast source filters aren't widely used yet, and that's
> > really the only feature that's affected if an application actually
> > exercises this bug, as far as I can tell. An ordinary filter-less
> > multicast join should still work, and only forwarded multicast
> > traffic making use of filters and doing empty-source filters with
> > the MSFILTER ioctl would be at risk of not getting multicast
> > traffic forwarded to them because the reports generated would not
> > be based on the correct counts.
> > But having the fix in is better than having it broken, even
> > for that case. :-)
>
>
> OK, thanks for the clarification, I understand better now :-)
>
> Marcelo, David, does this backport seem appropriate for 2.4.32 ? I verified
> that it compiles, nothing more. If it's OK, I've noticed another patch that
> Yan posted today and which might be of interest before a very solid release.
Hi Willy,
Given the fact that it is a bug correction, sure.
Could you please prepare a nice e-mail with the full description?
Thanks
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