Re: [PATCH] exportfs: Properly parse IPv6 literal strings with null termination

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Thanks for chasing this down, Todd!

On Sep 17, 2014, at 4:48 PM, Todd Vierling <todd.vierling@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The original implementation was using strncpy() with a truncation
> length to an uninitialized stack buffer, leaving a string that
> was only null terminated by luck.
> 
> While here, change to use no-copy semantics (no extra buffer) to
> avoid buffer overflows altogether.

Needs

Fixes: 4663c648 (exportfs: Support raw IPv6 addresses with "client:/path”)

And needs a Signed-off-by.

I wonder about the “no-copy” change. I thought that on some systems,
the tool chain makes the command line arguments read-only.

> ---
> utils/exportfs/exportfs.c | 18 ++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/utils/exportfs/exportfs.c b/utils/exportfs/exportfs.c
> index e7d1ac8..bdea12b 100644
> --- a/utils/exportfs/exportfs.c
> +++ b/utils/exportfs/exportfs.c
> @@ -351,16 +351,15 @@ static int exportfs_generic(char *arg, char *options, int verbose)
> 
> static int exportfs_ipv6(char *arg, char *options, int verbose)
> {
> -	char *path, *c, hname[NI_MAXHOST + strlen("/128")];
> +	char *path, *c;
> 
> 	arg++;
> 	c = strchr(arg, ']');
> 	if (c == NULL)
> 		return 1;
> -	strncpy(hname, arg, c - arg);
> 
> 	/* no colon means this is a wildcarded DNS hostname */
> -	if (strchr(hname, ':') == NULL)
> +	if (memchr(arg, ':', c - arg) == NULL)
> 		return exportfs_generic(--arg, options, verbose);
> 
> 	path = strstr(c, ":/");
> @@ -370,9 +369,9 @@ static int exportfs_ipv6(char *arg, char *options, int verbose)
> 
> 	/* if there's anything between the closing brace and the
> 	 * path separator, it's probably a prefix length */
> -	strcat(hname, ++c);
> +	memmove(c, c + 1, path - c);
> 
> -	exportfs_parsed(hname, path, options, verbose);
> +	exportfs_parsed(arg, path, options, verbose);
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> @@ -458,16 +457,15 @@ static int unexportfs_generic(char *arg, int verbose)
> 
> static int unexportfs_ipv6(char *arg, int verbose)
> {
> -	char *path, *c, hname[NI_MAXHOST + strlen("/128")];
> +	char *path, *c;
> 
> 	arg++;
> 	c = strchr(arg, ']');
> 	if (c == NULL)
> 		return 1;
> -	strncpy(hname, arg, c - arg);
> 
> 	/* no colon means this is a wildcarded DNS hostname */
> -	if (strchr(hname, ':') == NULL)
> +	if (memchr(arg, ':', c - arg) == NULL)
> 		return unexportfs_generic(--arg, verbose);
> 
> 	path = strstr(c, ":/");
> @@ -477,9 +475,9 @@ static int unexportfs_ipv6(char *arg, int verbose)
> 
> 	/* if there's anything between the closing brace and the
> 	 * path separator, it's probably a prefix length */
> -	strcat(hname, ++c);
> +	memmove(c, c + 1, path - c);
> 
> -	unexportfs_parsed(hname, path, verbose);
> +	unexportfs_parsed(arg, path, verbose);
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
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