On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 15:23:41 +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Julien Cristau <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: manpages > > Version: 3.21-1 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: patch > > > > Hi, > > > > getifaddrs(3) and rtnetlink(7) both refer to struct net_device_stats, > > but the actual struct returned is rtnl_link_stats (I noticed this > > because using net_device_stats leads to completely bogus values on > > 64bit). As far as I can tell struct net_device_stats is used inside the > > kernel, but net/core/rtnetlink.c:rtnl_fill_ifinfo() exports that > > information as struct rtnl_link_stats in the netlink message. > > Just looking in from upstream here... I guess this piece must refer to > some Debian specific text, since I don't find the referred to text in > the upstream page? > Hi Michael,
the bug is still in getifaddrs(3) and rtnetlink(7) in
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages as far as I can
tell.
The NOTES section of getifaddrs(3) says [1]
In this case, the ifa_data field may contain a pointer
to a struct net_device_stats, defined in <linux/netdevice.h>, which
contains various interface attributes and statistics.
and the section about RTM_NEWLINK, RTM_DELLINK, RTM_GETLINK in
rtnetlink(7) says [2]
The value type for IFLA_STATS is struct net_device_stats.
[1]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=docs/man-pages/man-pages.git;a=blob;f=man3/getifaddrs.3;h=7e8aa259a263ff0c5245c2c0983c05956a2b1473;hb=HEAD#l185
[2]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=docs/man-pages/man-pages.git;a=blob;f=man7/rtnetlink.7;h=d93d39531652e79a66be0badcd6715dbacd78588;hb=HEAD#l103
Cheers,
Julien
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