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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
To: gorcunov@gmail•com
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] net,socket: introduce build_sockaddr_check helper to catch overflow at build time
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:12:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091024.061209.39469983.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091023214306.GA30616@lenovo>

From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail•com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:43:06 +0400

> Or say it could be something like that
> 
> #define __sockaddr(type, src)	\
> 	({ build_sockaddr_check(sizeof(type)); (type *) src; })
> 
> and say in function af_inet.c:inet_getname instead of
> 
> 	struct sockaddr_in *sin	= (struct sockaddr_in *)uaddr;
> 
> we may write like
> 
> 	struct sockaddr_in *sin	= __sockaddr(struct sockaddr_in, uaddr);
> 
> which would check the size.

Or even a "DECLARE_SOCKADDR(type, src, dest)" which encapsulates the
entire declaration statement.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-24 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-21 17:07 [RFC] net,socket: introduce build_sockaddr_check helper to catch overflow at build time Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-10-22 11:49 ` David Miller
2009-10-22 13:55   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-10-23 21:43     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-10-24 13:12       ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-24 16:32         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-10-29 10:00           ` David Miller
2009-10-29 14:50             ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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