[libvirt] [PATCH] nwfilter: Fix sscanf off-by-one error in virNWFilterSnoopLeaseFileLoad

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Tue Jun 2 12:11:53 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 12:21:32PM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
>
>
>On 06/02/2015 11:35 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 10:18:34AM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
>>> We allocate 16 bytes for IPv4 address and 55 bytes for interface
>>> key, therefore we should read up to 15/54 bytes and let the last byte
>>> reserved for terminating null byte in sscanf.
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226400
>>> ---
>>> src/nwfilter/nwfilter_dhcpsnoop.c | 4 ++--
>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_dhcpsnoop.c
>>> b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_dhcpsnoop.c
>>> index 6da8983..f331e22 100644
>>> --- a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_dhcpsnoop.c
>>> +++ b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_dhcpsnoop.c
>>> @@ -1958,8 +1958,8 @@ virNWFilterSnoopLeaseFileLoad(void)
>>>             break;
>>>         }
>>>         ln++;
>>> -        /* key len 55 = "VMUUID"+'-'+"MAC" */
>>> -        if (sscanf(line, "%u %55s %16s %16s", &ipl.timeout,
>>> +        /* key len 54 = "VMUUID"+'-'+"MAC" */
>>> +        if (sscanf(line, "%u %54s %15s %15s", &ipl.timeout,
>>>                    ifkey, ipstr, srvstr) < 4) {
>>
>> We initialize ifkey as char ifkey[VIR_IFKEY_LEN], so it might be nicer
>> to call:
>>
>>  if (sscanf(line, "%u %*s %*s %*s", &ipl.timeout,
>>                    VIR_IFKEY_LEN - 1, ifkey,
>>             INET_ADDRSTRLEN - 1, ipstr,
>>             INET_ADDRSTRLEN - 1, srvstr) < 4) {
>>      ...
>>
>I'd like to disagree --> 'error: too many arguments for format', perhaps
>you've mistaken this for printf where man says:
>"Instead of a decimal digit string one may write "*" or  "*m$" (for some
>decimal integer m) to specify that the field width is given in the next
>argument, or in the m-th argument, respectively, which must be of type int."
>

Yep, for sure that's what I did, sorry ;)

>This however is different for scanf, where '*' is defined as
>assignment-suppression character
>
>> But what you have is enough, so ACK to that.
>Thanks for the ACK though.
>

You're welcome

>Regards,
>Erik
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