On Sunday 2011-07-10 21:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >On Sunday 2011-07-10 20:23, Bart De Schuymer wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I just released a new version of the ebtables tool. I had produced this patch in response to a gcc warning. Compiles, but not tested. --->8--- From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: 2011-07-11 01:11 +0200 libebt_among: fix undefined behavior on dereference of typepunned ptr extensions/ebt_among.c: In function ‘create_wormhash’: extensions/ebt_among.c:250:4: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules extensions/ebt_among.c:261:3: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules --- extensions/ebt_among.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: ebtables-v2.0.10-1/extensions/ebt_among.c =================================================================== --- ebtables-v2.0.10-1.orig/extensions/ebt_among.c +++ ebtables-v2.0.10-1/extensions/ebt_among.c @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static struct ebt_mac_wormhash *create_w char *endptr; struct ebt_mac_wormhash *workcopy, *result, *h; unsigned char mac[6]; - unsigned char ip[4]; + uint32_t ip; int nmacs = 0; int i; char token[4]; @@ -222,16 +222,18 @@ static struct ebt_mac_wormhash *create_w ebt_print_error("MAC parse error: %.20s", anchor); return NULL; } + ip = 0; if (*pc == '=') { /* an IP follows the MAC; collect similarly to MAC */ pc++; anchor = pc; - for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) { + for (i = 3; i > 0; --i) { if (read_until(&pc, ".", token, 3) < 0 || token[0] == 0) { ebt_print_error("IP parse error: %.20s", anchor); return NULL; } - ip[i] = strtol(token, &endptr, 10); + /* 0xFF warrants using 8 - not CHAR_BIT. */ + ip |= (strtoul(token, &endptr, 10) & 0xFF) << (8 * i); if (*endptr) { ebt_print_error("IP parse error: %.20s", anchor); return NULL; @@ -242,23 +244,21 @@ static struct ebt_mac_wormhash *create_w ebt_print_error("IP parse error: %.20s", anchor); return NULL; } - ip[3] = strtol(token, &endptr, 10); + ip |= strtoul(token, &endptr, 10) & 0xFF; if (*endptr) { ebt_print_error("IP parse error: %.20s", anchor); return NULL; } - if (*(uint32_t*)ip == 0) { + ip = htonl(ip); + if (ip == 0) { ebt_print_error("Illegal IP 0.0.0.0"); return NULL; } - } else { - /* no IP, we set it to 0.0.0.0 */ - memset(ip, 0, 4); } /* we have collected MAC and IP, so we add an entry */ memcpy(((char *) workcopy->pool[nmacs].cmp) + 2, mac, 6); - workcopy->pool[nmacs].ip = *(const uint32_t *) ip; + workcopy->pool[nmacs].ip = ip; nmacs++; /* re-allocate memory if needed */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html