On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:50:20AM +0800, wzt.wzt@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > IPVS not check the length of pp->name, use sprintf will cause stack buffer overflow. > struct ip_vs_protocol{} declare name as char *, if register a protocol as: > struct ip_vs_protocol ip_vs_test = { > .name = "aaaaaaaa....128...aaa", > .debug_packet = ip_vs_tcpudp_debug_packet, > }; > > when called ip_vs_tcpudp_debug_packet(), sprintf(buf, "%s TRUNCATED", pp->name); > will cause stack buffer overflow. > > Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I think that the simple answer is, don't do that. But your patch seems entirely reasonable to me. Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Patrick, please consider merging this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html