Re: [Linuxptp-users] [Linuxptp-devel] Planning release 1.7

[Richard C. <ric...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:14:47PM +0000, Jesuiter, Henry (ALC NetworX GmbH) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> as a bug fix release, it may be useful if you consider my patch from last Friday ([PATCH] Fix data type for return value of vasprintf()), 
> regarding the the data type issue in util.c. 
> 
> 'len2' is of type 'size_t' in util.c:451, but vasprintf in line 457 returns '-1' on error which is checked in line 460. Currently 
> this check will always fail (regardless of the return value of vasprintf()), according to its declaration as unsigned int.

Yes, that is a bug.  I will include the fix in 1.7.

Thanks,
Richard