Bug 198380
| Summary: | Package kexec-tools lacks IPv6 support | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> |
| Component: | kexec-tools | Assignee: | Neil Horman <nhorman> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | mbacovsk |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-07-11 11:35:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 195271 | ||
This should be ok for this package. That function only uses a socket to set interface flags for interface that need the IFF_UP flag cleared. It doesn't actually need to send/receive any network data. This could be done more generically with netlink or raw sockets, but at the moment IPV6 support isn't in any way needed in this package I think the idea is not that ipv6 is not needed but that ipv6 support is wanted Actually it is you who is missing my point, although as I re-read my comments I could have made them more clearly. That socket creation refereced above uses AF_INET to do its work, but it could just as easily use AF_INET6, AF_RAW, etc. The only work that socket does is to change interface flags. It conducts no network communitcation at all. As such we could change it to use a different protocol, or add protocols over which that socket did its work, but to do so would be pointless, since that sockets actions are protocol agnostic. |
This bug was reported automaticaly in connection with IPv6 project. Our aim is to support IPv6 in all Fedora Core packages so FC6 and RHEL5 will be ready for IPv6. This package seems to lack IPv6 support as is illustrated in attached log. Here follows part of scanning log (grep -r F_INET *)/up to 30 lines: /kexec-tools-1.101/kexec/ifdown.c:38: if ((fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) < 0) {