[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.


Kind regards,

-- 
Dr. Stefan Zegenhagen

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