On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 06:09:54PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Simon Horman wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Indeed.
>
> > But your patch seems entirely reasonable to me.
> >
> > Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Patrick, please consider merging this.
>
> I think this fix is a bit silly, we can simply print the name in
> the pr_debug() statement and avoid both the potential overflow
> and truncation.
>
> How does this look?
Looks good to me:
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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