[tor-commits] [torspec/main] Clarify behavior on bad address length in NETINFO

[nickm at torproject.org]

commit b962a3003808fb940101f5f49c5b3ead2eeaf3e5
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 16 11:17:23 2021 -0400

    Clarify behavior on bad address length in NETINFO
---
 tor-spec.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tor-spec.txt b/tor-spec.txt
index 7e76562..dce264f 100644
--- a/tor-spec.txt
+++ b/tor-spec.txt
@@ -887,7 +887,8 @@ see tor-design.pdf.
      [06] IPv6.
 
    ALEN MUST be 4 when ATYPE is 0x04 (IPv4) and 16 when ATYPE is 0x06
-   (IPv6).
+   (IPv6).  If the ALEN value is wrong for the given ATYPE value, then
+   the provided address should be ignored.
 
    The timestamp is a big-endian unsigned integer number of seconds
    since the Unix epoch. Implementations MUST ignore unexpected bytes