Bug 417

Summary:	stack explosion when sending to loopback device
Product:	ns-3	Reporter:	Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage>
Component:	internet	Assignee:	Rajib Bhattacharjea <raj.b>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	craigdo, tommaso.pecorella
Priority:	P1
Version:	pre-release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	2211
Attachments:	avoid infinite stack recursion.

Description Mathieu Lacage 2008-11-24 02:45:39 UTC

If you use the tcp or udp stacks, and attempt to send and receive packets from the loopback device, you risk getting into a stack explosion. The attached patch fixes this in a very minimally intrusive way.

(testcase exhibiting the bug and exercising the fix is in the ns-3-simu tree)

Comment 1 Mathieu Lacage 2008-11-24 02:46:37 UTC

Created attachment 313 [details]
avoid infinite stack recursion.

Comment 2 Mathieu Lacage 2008-12-10 02:37:02 UTC

there is not much I can do here. I am waiting for an ACK from the relevant maintainer, and that means raj. Reassigning to raj: if it's ok with you, please apply.

Comment 3 Rajib Bhattacharjea 2008-12-11 16:55:37 UTC

this causes regressions (it seems?)

more on the way.

Comment 4 Rajib Bhattacharjea 2008-12-11 17:11:43 UTC

Given that this patch changes the order of execution of functions, it should probably change time stamps for events as well (which it appears to do).  I think it is good.

Comment 5 Rajib Bhattacharjea 2008-12-13 23:30:16 UTC

Changeset
4022:142c13a3975f

Comment 6 Tommaso Pecorella 2015-11-08 17:31:35 UTC

According to Massif's output, this bug is not anymore relevant thanks to the changes in LoopbackNetDevice.