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From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl•cc>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 4/7] lib/inet_proto: Make sure destination buffers are NULL-terminated
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:55:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170818165520.GE16375@orbyte.nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170818093734.705f6742@xeon-e3>

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 09:37:33AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:09:29 +0200
> Phil Sutter <phil@nwl•cc> wrote:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl•cc>
> > ---
> >  lib/inet_proto.c | 9 ++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/inet_proto.c b/lib/inet_proto.c
> > index ceda082b12a2e..87ed4769fc3da 100644
> > --- a/lib/inet_proto.c
> > +++ b/lib/inet_proto.c
> > @@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ const char *inet_proto_n2a(int proto, char *buf, int len)
> >  	pe = getprotobynumber(proto);
> >  	if (pe) {
> >  		icache = proto;
> > -		strncpy(ncache, pe->p_name, 16);
> > -		strncpy(buf, pe->p_name, len);
> > +		strncpy(ncache, pe->p_name, 15);
> > +		ncache[15] = '\0';
> > +		strncpy(buf, pe->p_name, len - 1);
> > +		buf[len] = '\0';
> >  		return buf;
> >  	}
> >  	snprintf(buf, len, "ipproto-%d", proto);
> > @@ -62,7 +64,8 @@ int inet_proto_a2n(const char *buf)
> >  	pe = getprotobyname(buf);
> >  	if (pe) {
> >  		icache = pe->p_proto;
> > -		strncpy(ncache, pe->p_name, 16);
> > +		strncpy(ncache, pe->p_name, 15);
> > +		ncache[15] = '\0';
> >  		return pe->p_proto;
> >  	}
> >  	return -1;
> 
> Depending on proto name to be 15 characters or less is a silly
> choice. Why not use strdup() and do it right?

Yes, I was puzzled by that as well. Luckily the longest proto name in my
/etc/protocols is rsvp-e2e-ignore which is 15 chars long. I'll change
the patch to use dynamic allocation.

Thanks, Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-18 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-17 17:09 [iproute PATCH v2 0/7] Covscan: Fixes for string termination Phil Sutter
2017-08-17 17:09 ` [iproute PATCH v2 1/7] ipntable: Make sure filter.name is NULL-terminated Phil Sutter
2017-08-18  9:19   ` David Laight
2017-08-18 10:52     ` Phil Sutter
2017-08-18 16:32       ` David Laight
2017-08-18 16:52         ` Phil Sutter
2017-08-17 17:09 ` [iproute PATCH v2 2/7] xfrm_state: Make sure alg_name " Phil Sutter
2017-08-17 17:09 ` [iproute PATCH v2 3/7] lib/fs: Fix format string in find_fs_mount() Phil Sutter
2017-08-17 17:09 ` [iproute PATCH v2 4/7] lib/inet_proto: Make sure destination buffers are NULL-terminated Phil Sutter
2017-08-18 16:37   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-08-18 16:55     ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2017-08-17 17:09 ` [iproute PATCH v2 5/7] lnstat_util: Simplify alloc_and_open() a bit Phil Sutter
2017-08-17 17:09 ` [iproute PATCH v2 6/7] tc/m_xt: Fix for potential string buffer overflows Phil Sutter
2017-08-17 17:09 ` [iproute PATCH v2 7/7] lib/ll_map: Make sure im->name is NULL-terminated Phil Sutter
2017-08-18 16:33   ` Stephen Hemminger

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