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-rw-r--r--inet/inet6_opt.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/inet/inet6_opt.c b/inet/inet6_opt.c
index 17d3fee213..83063d2259 100644
--- a/inet/inet6_opt.c
+++ b/inet/inet6_opt.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
    Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, 2006.
 
@@ -39,7 +39,11 @@ inet6_opt_init (void *extbuf, socklen_t extlen)
 
       /* Fill in the length in units of 8 octets.  */
       struct ip6_hbh *extp = (struct ip6_hbh *) extbuf;
-      extp->ip6h_len = extlen / 8;
+
+      /* RFC 2460 requires that the header extension length is the
+	 length of the option header in 8-byte units, not including
+	 the first 8 bytes.  Hence we have to subtract one.  */
+      extp->ip6h_len = extlen / 8 - 1;
     }
 
   return sizeof (struct ip6_hbh);