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From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Interface descriptions via pcap broken
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 07:45:40PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:40:57 -0600
> Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > BTW, if you give your devices descriptions, libpcap
> > starts to behave again; this could be a clue to the source of the bug
> > :/
> 
> 0xa5 is the malloc fill pattern when debugging is enabled, and
> having recently reinstalled FreeBSD I forgot to create the malloc.conf
> symlink. So something's reading from uninitialized memory.

Does commit c65292b04b98d6a76d58c5a54ca8f81463bf24de in the libpcap git
tree look like it could help? I haven't checked in detail but I think it
might have never made it into a release yet?

https://github.com/mcr/libpcap/commit/c65292b04b98d6a76d58c5a54ca8f81463bf24de

-- WXS