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Bug #9053

dladm show-phys -P speaks gibberish

Added by Robert Mustacchi over 1 year ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Robert Mustacchi
Category:
cmd - userland programs
Start date:
2018-02-06
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
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Description

dladm show-phys -P can speak giberish when fields are specified:

[root@haswell ~]# dladm show-phys -o link,speed,speed,speed -P
LINK         SPEED  SPEED  SPEED
igb0         0E��������AE� 0E��������AE� 0E��������AE�
igb2         0E��������AE� 0E��������AE� 0E��������AE�
igb1         0E��������AE� 0E��������AE� 0E��������AE�
igb3         0E��������AE� 0E��������AE� 0E��������AE�

The root cause of this is that we are only initializing fields that are valid for the mode (whether using -P or not). This means that the rest of the structure is stack garbage!

I've opted to fix this by zeroing the structure, which libofmt will then handle correct as the field not being present. The alternative idea I had was to go through and actually limit the valid fields to those that made sense. I have opted to not do that because I was afraid that this might end up breaking things unintentionally that were used to using those fields.

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#1

Updated by Robert Mustacchi over 1 year ago

With the fix, we see that this works for lots of different fields whether parsable or not:

[root@haswell ~]# /var/tmp/dladm show-phys -o link,speed,speed,speed -P
LINK         SPEED  SPEED  SPEED
igb0         --     --     --
igb2         --     --     --
igb1         --     --     --
igb3         --     --     --
[root@haswell ~]# /var/tmp/dladm show-phys -o link,speed,speed,speed -P -p
igb0:::
igb2:::
igb1:::
igb3:::
[root@haswell ~]# /var/tmp/dladm show-phys -o link,speed,speed,speed,duplex,media,device,flags -P
LINK         SPEED  SPEED  SPEED  DUPLEX    MEDIA                DEVICE       FLAGS
igb0         --     --     --     --        Ethernet             igb0         -----
igb2         --     --     --     --        Ethernet             igb2         -----
igb1         --     --     --     --        Ethernet             igb1         -----
igb3         --     --     --     --        Ethernet             igb3         -----
#2

Updated by Electric Monk over 1 year ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed

git commit d96b2a3f9d5053d3cd23e2b07b41c272faa5d52a

commit  d96b2a3f9d5053d3cd23e2b07b41c272faa5d52a
Author: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
Date:   2018-02-18T17:58:36.000Z

    9053 dladm show-phys -P speaks gibberish
    Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@joyent.com>
    Reviewed by: Andy Stormont <astormont@racktopsystems.com>
    Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.net>
    Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>

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