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if-options: bound encapsulated vendor option payload
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if-options: use descriptive error for full vendor option list
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Expand Up @@ -1126,6 +1126,10 @@ parse_option(struct dhcpcd_ctx *ctx, const char *ifname, struct if_options *ifo,

arg = p + 1;
s = (ssize_t)sizeof(ifo->vendor) - 1 - ifo->vendor[0] - 2;
if (s < 0) {
logerrx("vendor option list is full");

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Set errno to ENOBUFS before returning.

This branch logs an error and returns -1 without setting errno. Callers that inspect errno cannot reliably identify buffer exhaustion, contrary to the PR’s stated contract. Set errno = ENOBUFS before returning, as the adjacent capacity check does at Line 1136.

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In the vendor option list capacity branch near logerrx, set errno to ENOBUFS
before returning -1, matching the adjacent capacity check’s behavior.

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This can be split out into its own change, since we don't do it anywhere else we throw an error.

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@ColinMcInnes, agreed. Setting errno = ENOBUFS can be a separate change. Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for it?

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@ColinMcInnes, understood. I won’t open a follow-up issue.

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@ColinMcInnes I don't see an issue with setting errno here in this change, and we do it other places too.

return -1;
}
if (inet_aton(arg, &addr) == 1) {
if (s < 6) {
s = -1;
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