SNMP/VACM: bugfix for vacmViewTreeFamilyMask

Dear all,

it's almost a year since I sent the patch attached to this e-mail, and I
just found out that I have not yet gotten a response to it.

I would consider this patch important because it fixes an issue with the
interpretation of data that might be critical for SNMPv3 operation. I
confirmed at that time that erlangs interpretation of
vacmViewTreeFamilyMask is indeed not interoperable with other SNMP
stacks.

Kind regards,

> > > 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.

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From: Stefan Zegenhagen <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 09:56:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bugfix for vacmViewTreeFamilyMask

The vacmViewTreeFamilyMask is defined to be a bit string in the MIB, not
an OID. However, the MIB implementation assumed the latter, effectively
rendering all attempts to read/set masks via SNMP unsuccessful.

Since the mask is used in hot paths (e.g. access permission checks for
each SNMP operation, the OID representation of the mask has benefits
(e.g. faster processing). Therefore, convert the bitstring to/from its
OID representation when reading/setting any mask object.

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