bug#74907: 31.0.50; nsm-check-local-subnet-ipv4 test fails on macOS with VPN enabled

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:26:28 +0000, Stefan Kangas 
>>>>> <stefankangas@gmail.com> said:

    Stefan>     (substring (nth 3 info) 0 -1)

    Stefan> With a VPN, `info` is bound to this when I get the backtrace:

    Stefan>     ("utun0"
    Stefan>      [10 0 0 1 0]
    Stefan>      (0 . [0 0 10 255 255 255 16 2 0 0 10 0 0 1])
    Stefan>      (0 . [0 0 255 0 0 0 16 2 0 0 10 0 0 1]))

    Stefan> Without a VPN, `info` is bound to this instead:

    Stefan>     ("utun6"
    Stefan>      [65153 0 0 0 6123 19123 32345 45123 0]
    Stefan>      [65153 0 0 0 65535 65535 65535 65535 0]
    Stefan>      [65535 65535 65535 65535 0 0 0 0 0])

    Stefan> Clearly, this will not work:

    Stefan>     (substring '(0 . [1 2 3 4]) 0 -1)

    Stefan> So the question is why `network-interface-list` would return such an
    Stefan> unusual value here.

Because getifaddrs is returning bogus info for the netmask. How about this:

diff --git a/src/process.c b/src/process.c
index cd1378f07ad..4fe16ad1a85 100644
--- a/src/process.c
+++ b/src/process.c
@@ -4351,6 +4351,7 @@ network_interface_list (bool full, unsigned short match)
 
       if (full)
         {
+         it->ifa_netmask->sa_family = it->ifa_addr->sa_family;
           elt = Fcons (conv_sockaddr_to_lisp (it->ifa_netmask, len), elt);
           /* There is an it->ifa_broadaddr field, but its contents are
              unreliable, so always calculate the broadcast address from

Robert
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