[erlang-patches] SNMP/VACM: bugfix for vacmViewTreeFamilyMask

[Stefan Zegenhagen]

Dear all,

> > the implementation of SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM.mib assumes that the input for
> > vacmViewTreeFamilyMask is an OID consisting of 1's and 0's only to form
> > the mask. However, the MIB states that the input should be a bitstring.
> > 
> > The OID representation of the mask is useful in the code as it speeds up
> > time-critical code paths when checking access permissions for EACH SNMP
> > access. Reading/writing the view mask objects is less time-critical.
> > 
> > Therefore, to fix the issue, convert between OID representation and
> > bitstring when the vacmViewTreeFamilyMask objects are accessed. This is
> > done by the patch attached to this e-mail.


I'm very sorry for the troubles that I am causing but it seems that the
previous version of the patch did more than it should: the OID-bitstring
conversion was also applied to other tables in the same MIB on
get/get-next requests.

The version of the patch that is attached to this e-mail restricts the
OID-bitstring conversion to vacmViewTreeFamilyMask alone.



Kind regards,

-- 
Dr. Stefan Zegenhagen

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