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VK7AX > LINHAM 03.06.08 15:54l 58 Lines 2272 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: BUGs into libax25
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From: VK7AX@VK7AX.#ULV.TAS.AUS.OC
To : LINHAM@WW
From: Bernard Pidoux <bernard.pidoux@upmc.fr>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:26:19 +0200
To: linux-hams <linux-hams@vger.kernel.org>
CC: Ray Wells <vk2tv@exemail.com.au>, Charlie k4gbb <k4gbb1@earthlink.net>, Jerry DeLong <KD4YAL@tampabay.rr.com>, F1TE <f1te@f1te.org>, f8arr <f8arr@f8arr.org>, Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Hi All,
I found a number of BUGs into libax25 that may affect nearly ALL AX25 applications for it is in ax25_aton_entry() function that is used to translate a callsign into AX25 format.
Programs like kissattach, listen, ax25ipd, FPAC, xfbbd are concerned.
The code would return an error with 6 letters callsigns.
The second set of errors is in /proc/ax25/ timers format description.
since timers are now in millisec, they require a larger storage size.
This results in using unsigned long integers rather than unsigned short integers.
Ax25-tools and ax25-apps must be recompiled after recompilation and installation of this new libax25 version.
FPAC and LinuxFBB also.
I patched my own source of libax25 and uploaded it here :
http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/ax25/libax25-0.0.11.5src_f6bvp.tgz
Here is the new ChangeLog entry :
libax25 0.0.11.5
* BUG in axutils.c
function ax25_aton_entry() was only testing 5 callsign
characters.
A lot of ax25-tools and AX25 applications using this library
function, including FPAC, could have problems with 6 letters
callsigns. Corrected.
* BUG in proc_ax25 structure timers members size declared in
procutils.h. Since in kernel 2.6 the timers are now in milliseconds,
they need more place to be saved (unsigned short --> unsigned long).
* corrected, together with functions reading proc files in procutils.c.
-- Bernard Pidoux <f6bvp@amsat.org> Jun 1 2008
73 de bernard, f6bvp
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