forwarded 697240 https://bugzilla.quagga.net/show_bug.cgi?id=734
tags 697240 + confirmed upstream
stop

Hello Hans

Thank you for this bug report. I found a matching one on the Quagga Bug Tracker
and added your information. The patch from the second URL seems reasonable,
I try to get it into the Wheezy packages.

bye,

-christian-


On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:08:04 +0100
Hans van Kranenburg <hans.van.kranenb...@mendix.com> wrote:

> Package: quagga
> Version: 0.99.21-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> In the current quagga version that will be release with wheezy, the ospf
> distribute-list command is broken. Worse, using it does not give any
> warning, does not crash quagga, but the command is totally ignored.
> 
> The result of this bug is that when upgrading quagga from squeeze to
> wheezy, distribute-list is ignored, which probably results in unwanted
> routes to be advertised via ospf, potentially having disastrous effect
> on the stability of a whole ospf network.
> 
> As test, I created a minimal ospf configuration, which shows the
> distribute-list being ignored:
> 
> mekker(config)# sh run
> 
> Current configuration:
> !
> hostname mekker
> password blaat
> !
> !
> router ospf
>  ospf router-id 1.2.3.4
>  redistribute connected
> !
> access-list test deny any
> !
> line vty
> !
> end
> mekker(config)# router ospf
> mekker(config-router)# distribute-list test out connected
> mekker(config-router)#
> mekker(config)# sh run
> 
> Current configuration:
> !
> hostname mekker
> password blaat
> !
> !
> router ospf
>  ospf router-id 1.2.3.4
>  redistribute connected
> !
> access-list test deny any
> !
> line vty
> !
> end
> 
> Also, if the distribute-list command exists in the ospfd configuration
> file and ospfd is started, the line gets ignored, without any warning or
> whatsoever.
> 
> # cat /etc/quagga/ospfd.conf
> !
> hostname mekker
> password blaat
> !
> !
> router ospf
> ospf router-id 1.2.3.4
> redistribute connected
> distribute-list test out connected
> !
> access-list test deny any
> !
> line vty
> !
> # /etc/init.d/quagga start
> $ telnet localhost ospfd
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> Hello, this is Quagga (version 0.99.21).
> Copyright 1996-2005 Kunihiro Ishiguro, et al.
> 
> 
> User Access Verification
> 
> Password:
> mekker> en
> mekker# sh run
> 
> Current configuration:
> !
> hostname mekker
> password blaat
> !
> !
> router ospf
>  ospf router-id 1.2.3.4
>  redistribute connected
> !
> access-list test deny any
> !
> line vty
> !
> end
> mekker#
> 
> It's gone! And ospfd starts injecting all routes that had to be filtered
> into your network now, happily messing up everything.
> 
> This bug was introduced in commit
> e0ca5fde7be5b5ce90dae78c2477e8245aecb8e9 in quagga, and is clearly the
> result of over-enthousiastic copy-pasting of almost(!) similar lines.
> 
> See
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git/commit/?h=sf/ospfd&id=e0ca5fde7be5b5ce90dae78c2477e8245aecb8e9
> click to ospfd/ospf_vty.c and look at the bottom two chunks of that patch.
> 
> Later, this issue was found and fixed in
> 1e47fb668d0125cbb6d53f73469093e744164a47: See
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git/commit/?id=1e47fb668d0125cbb6d53f73469093e744164a47&h=master
> 
> There is no new quagga release available which includes this bugfix, but
> it's merged to master in git. Both the introduction and fix of this bug
> are trivial changes, so would there be any way to get this patch
> included before the release? This would prevent network-downtime and
> headaches for network admins while upgrading to wheezy.
> 
> I succesfully tested this patch by building packages for wheezy and
> squeeze-backports based on 0.99.21-3 and installing them both on the
> test machine I used for this bug report, and on test-locations in our
> network.
> 
> Attached is the patch file which I created,
> 40_ospfd__ospf_vty.c__distribute-list.diff
> 


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