Re: git: 7b0b4fca080e - main - pfctl: getifaddrs() can return entries where ifa_addr is NULL

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From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:35:02 UTC

On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 10:07:56AM +0000, Kristof Provost wrote:
K> commit 7b0b4fca080e818e5cf2559453345b6057d33064
K> Author:     Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org>
K> AuthorDate: 2025-07-08 09:48:52 +0000
K> Commit:     Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org>
K> CommitDate: 2025-07-15 07:55:30 +0000
K> 
K>     pfctl: getifaddrs() can return entries where ifa_addr is NULL

Is this true on FreeBSD? The libc code sets what the route socket
returns and the latter always copies out kernel's ifa->ifa_addr
into info.rti_info[RTAX_IFA].  Can we have a in kernel a
struct ifaddr with NULL ifa_addr?

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Gleb Smirnoff