Subject: Re: [PATCH net] KEYS: DNS: fix parsing multiple options

From: Eric Biggers <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:37:24 -0700

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 05:14:30PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> The fix seems to work, but the use of kstrtoul():
> 
> 	ret = kstrtoul(eq, 10, &derrno);
> 
> is incorrect since the buffer can't been modified to block out the next
> argument if there is one, so the following fails:
> 
> 	perl -e 'print "#dnserror=1#", "\x00" x 1' |
> 	keyctl padd dns_resolver desc @s
> 
> (Note this is preexisting and nothing to do with your patch).
> 
> I'm not sure how best to handle this.
> 
> Anyway, Dave, can you take Eric's patch into the net tree with:
> 
> 	Acked-by: David Howells <[email-masked]>
> 
> David

It could be handled by copying the option value to a temporary buffer.
Anyway, that can be a separate fix...

David (Miller), are you planning to take this through -net?

Thanks!

- Eric