Re: [iproute PATCH v2 1/7] ipntable: Make sure filter.name is NULL-terminated

[Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>]

Hi David,

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 09:19:16AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Phil Sutter
> > Sent: 17 August 2017 18:09
> > To: Stephen Hemminger
> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: [iproute PATCH v2 1/7] ipntable: Make sure filter.name is NULL-terminated
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
> > ---
> >  ip/ipntable.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/ip/ipntable.c b/ip/ipntable.c
> > index 879626ee4f491..7be1f04d33d90 100644
> > --- a/ip/ipntable.c
> > +++ b/ip/ipntable.c
> > @@ -633,7 +633,8 @@ static int ipntable_show(int argc, char **argv)
> >  		} else if (strcmp(*argv, "name") == 0) {
> >  			NEXT_ARG();
> > 
> > -			strncpy(filter.name, *argv, sizeof(filter.name));
> > +			strncpy(filter.name, *argv, sizeof(filter.name) - 1);
> > +			filter.name[sizeof(filter.name) - 1] = '\0';
> 
> Why not check for overflow instead?
> 			if (filter.name[sizeof(filter.name) - 1])
> 				usage("filer name too long");

sizeof(filter.name) is 1024, which is maybe a bit over the top for
something a user would input. So I found a better way avoiding all this
at once: I made filter.name a const char *, then just assigned *argv to
it. This should be safe since rtnl_dump_filter() and therefore
print_ntable() callback is called from inside ipntable_show() so *argv
is not accessed outside of it's scope.

What do you think?

Thanks, Phil