[syslinux] [PATCH] efi: reuse UDP port with sendto

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 18:47:12 PST 2013


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Celelibi <celelibi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Without an assigned source port, Transmit function assign a random new
> source port to the packet being sent. It thus have to be set before
> calling Transmit if the source port have already been decided.
> Conversly, we have to save the assigned port to reuse it later if
> needed.
>
> Resolve bug #35.
>
> Signed-off-by: Celelibi <celelibi at gmail.com>
> ---
>  efi/udp.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/efi/udp.c b/efi/udp.c
> index 59bb426..7271f1f 100644
> --- a/efi/udp.c
> +++ b/efi/udp.c
> @@ -336,6 +336,9 @@ void core_udp_sendto(struct pxe_pvt_inode *socket, const void *data,
>
>      memset(&udata, 0, sizeof(udata));
>
> +    /* Re-use the existing local port number if any */
> +    udata.StationPort = socket->net.efi.localport;
> +

As HPA noted, this shouldn't be saved here.  Commit 7ec052b on my
branch efi-fixes (will be renamed to efi-fixes-for-mfleming once Jason
gives more feedback).

-- 
-Gene


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