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authorChristos Longros <chris.longros@gmail.com>2026-04-17 18:19:24 +0000
committerJose Luis Duran <jlduran@FreeBSD.org>2026-04-24 00:51:05 +0000
commit5fd7eb1b89962c16ed7f2c551790dfded6534659 (patch)
tree66e7d4ae58238623245c1c4145fefa60c7abd2a8
parent7ac7604b9141005cc0663a5d021bceaf7746e940 (diff)
ping6: treat setsockopt failures as fatal
ping6 needs IPV6_RECVPKTINFO and IPV6_RECVHOPLIMIT to process incoming replies. When these options fail, replies are silently dropped and ping6 appears to hang. Use err(3) instead of warn(3) so the user gets a clear error and immediate exit. Signed-off-by: Christos Longros <chris.longros@gmail.com> Reviewed by: pouria, jlduran, glebius MFC after: 1 week Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56237 (cherry picked from commit 9a4a9f623bbaf991b3ba580593d47f2ee9f7b03b)
-rw-r--r--sbin/ping/ping6.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ping/ping6.c b/sbin/ping/ping6.c
index 356f0f72a6f8..f81de062e59a 100644
--- a/sbin/ping/ping6.c
+++ b/sbin/ping/ping6.c
@@ -1083,21 +1083,21 @@ ping6(int argc, char *argv[])
#ifdef IPV6_RECVPKTINFO
if (setsockopt(srecv, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_RECVPKTINFO, &optval,
sizeof(optval)) < 0)
- warn("setsockopt(IPV6_RECVPKTINFO)"); /* XXX err? */
+ err(1, "setsockopt(IPV6_RECVPKTINFO)");
#else /* old adv. API */
if (setsockopt(srecv, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_PKTINFO, &optval,
sizeof(optval)) < 0)
- warn("setsockopt(IPV6_PKTINFO)"); /* XXX err? */
+ err(1, "setsockopt(IPV6_PKTINFO)");
#endif
#endif /* USE_SIN6_SCOPE_ID */
#ifdef IPV6_RECVHOPLIMIT
if (setsockopt(srecv, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_RECVHOPLIMIT, &optval,
sizeof(optval)) < 0)
- warn("setsockopt(IPV6_RECVHOPLIMIT)"); /* XXX err? */
+ err(1, "setsockopt(IPV6_RECVHOPLIMIT)");
#else /* old adv. API */
if (setsockopt(srecv, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_HOPLIMIT, &optval,
sizeof(optval)) < 0)
- warn("setsockopt(IPV6_HOPLIMIT)"); /* XXX err? */
+ err(1, "setsockopt(IPV6_HOPLIMIT)");
#endif
cap_rights_clear(&rights_srecv, CAP_SETSOCKOPT);