Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] nwfilters: Test suite for checking created firewall entries

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Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 04/07/2010 05:15:12 PM:


>
> On 04/07/2010 03:02 PM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> >> If this is a bash test, you need to update the #!.
> >> Otherwise, you have to give up on local variables.
> >
> > I'll change this to be a bash script. No point in making the test program
> > portable across shells.
> >
> >>> +  tmpfile=`mktemp`
> >>> +  tmpfile2=`mktemp`
> >>
> >> Not all systems have mktemp; is it worth adding fallback code in that
> > case?
> >
> > Hm, two hardcoded files like '/tmp/nwfiltervmtest1' and
> > '/tmp/nwfiltervmtest2' could actually be a replacement, no?
>
> Yeah, but names that obvious are prone to DoS attacks.  If you are
> assuming bash, you can at least use $RANDOM to get past the worst of the
> security hole in being that blatant.  Or, as long as we are assuming
> bash and linux, you could just skip the test if mktemp doesn't exist.


Alright, alright. I'll write a function that simulates mktemp if not available using the ${RANDOM} suffix.
Though I hope nobody will DoS attack this test suite program :-)

>
> >> My review stops here - shell is my area of expertise, but my Linux
> >> network filtering knowledge is sparse.
> >
> > Ok. Thanks for the review. Will adapt and re-post.
>
> Well, one of the joys of open source is that you can have multiple
> reviewers, each with different angles of expertise, with a cumulative
> review better than any one person could give.


Yeah, definitely a good thing.

   Stefan

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