Re: [PATCH CLEANUP] sctp: fix the comment of sctp_sf_violation_paramlen()

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Vlad Yasevich wrote, at 05/17/2010 10:30 PM:
>> @@sctp_verify_asconf()
>> 3045                 if (param.v > chunk_end - length ||
>> 3046                     length < sizeof(sctp_paramhdr_t))
>> 3047                         return 0;
>>
> 
> This doesn't check the 'true' length of the parameter.  It makes sure that
> the length specified is at least as long as sctp_paramhdr_t (minimum length),
> and not longer then the end of the chunk.  It makes no assumptions about
> the actual length of the parameter.

Thanks for your exact description.

How about fixing like this?

diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
index 565a690..32e2c34 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
@@ -4329,8 +4329,9 @@ static sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_violation_chunklen(
 
 /*
  * Handle a protocol violation when the parameter length is invalid.
- * "Invalid" length is identified as smaller than the minimal length a
- * given parameter can be.
+ * If the length is smaller than the minimum length of a given parameter,
+ * or accumulated length in multi parameters exceeds the end of the chunk,
+ * the length is considered as invalid.
  */
 static sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_violation_paramlen(
 				     const struct sctp_endpoint *ep,

-- 
Best Regards
-----
Shan Wei


> 
> -vlad
> 
> 
> 


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