Ed Swierk wrote:
> In several places in qemu's slirp code, signed and unsigned ints are
> used interchangeably when dealing with IP packet lengths and offsets.
> This causes IP packets greater than 32K in length to be scrambled in
> various interesting ways that are extremely difficult to troubleshoot.
>
> Although large IP packets are fairly rare in practice, certain
> UDP-based protocols like NFS use them extensively.
>
> The attached patch wraps IP packet lengths and offsets in macros that
> ensure they are always properly treated as unsigned values.
Why not changing the definition itself to uint16_t and verifying each
occurence of ip_off and ip_len ?
Fabrice.
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