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On Fri, 25 May 2018 21:48:31 +0300 (EEST)
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2018, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 24 May 2018 23:37:45 +0300 Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Size or length? Here is the answer:
> > >
> > > - IP_VS_SCHEDNAME_MAXLEN and IP_VS_IFNAME_MAXLEN are sizes
> > > because they are used in kernel structures exported to user
> > > space for the old setsockopt interface. We can not change
> > > these structures in the kernel.
> > >
> > > - IP_VS_PENAME_MAXLEN and IP_VS_PEDATA_MAXLEN are max lengths
> > > because they are not exported to the old interface.
> > >
> > > As result:
> > > - buffers should have space for NUL terminator
> > > - strncpy should use sizeof(buffer) - 1 as max length
> > >
> > > As we change the libipvs structures, their users should be
> > > recompiled.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
> >
> > This all looks fine to me. I'll give other people a little time to
> > review and ACK, before I apply this.
>
> Thanks!
Applied:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/ipvsadm/ipvsadm.git/commit/?id=5cd1778489c52
> > (To Julian) did you find this by manual review, or did you use some tool
> > to find these?
>
> As you noticed the kernel patch, all started with
> the syzkaller report, then by manual review...
I added a note to the commit desc, pointing to the kernel commit,
gracefully reminding future distro backporters that the kernel side
also have issues in this area ;-)
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Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
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