Bug 77844 - netstat uses signed int for socket inodes - should be unsigned
Summary: netstat uses signed int for socket inodes - should be unsigned
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: net-tools
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Radek Vokál
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-14 11:32 UTC by Robert Walker
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-11-04 14:02:50 UTC
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Treat inodes as unsigned (6.32 KB, patch)
2002-11-14 11:33 UTC, Robert Walker
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Description Robert Walker 2002-11-14 11:32:12 UTC
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Description of problem:
netstat uses signed int for socket inodes - should be unsigned.
When enough sockets have been used, the inode number exceeds 2^31 and netstat treats this as negative
This causes a crash when processing /proc/net/unix and prevents sockets being matched to processes with the -p option

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use enough sockets (you don't have to keep them open) so that new sockets are allocated inodes > 2^31 (this may take some time - months in our case when running large nightly tests)
2. Run netstat -a -p

	

Actual Results:  processes cannot be matched to sockets (-p)
segfault when processing UNIX sockets

Expected Results:  processes should be matched to sockets (-p)
UNIX sockets are printed OK

Additional info:

I have produced a patch that makes netstat treat socket inodes as unsigned ints.

Also sent to net-tools maintainer (philb and bernd.eckenfels

Comment 1 Robert Walker 2002-11-14 11:33:39 UTC
Created attachment 85005 [details]
Treat inodes as unsigned

Comment 2 Neil Sedley 2003-08-01 08:40:11 UTC
Also seen on 7.1

According to http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.2/0834.html 
netstat > 1.60 is fixed.

Comment 3 Radek Vokál 2004-08-16 09:12:24 UTC
Can anyone help me how to reproduce this bug?


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