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From: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ip: handle NULL return from localtime in strxf_time in
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:25:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250216022523.647342-1-ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com> (raw)

Static analyzer reported:
Pointer 'tp', returned from function 'localtime' at ipxfrm.c:352, may be NULL 
and is dereferenced at ipxfrm.c:354 by calling function 'strftime'.

Corrections explained:
The function localtime() may return NULL if the provided time value is
invalid. This commit adds a check for NULL and handles the error case
by copying "invalid-time" into the output buffer.
Unlikely, but may return an error

Triggers found by static analyzer Svace.

Signed-off-by: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com>

---
 ip/ipxfrm.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ip/ipxfrm.c b/ip/ipxfrm.c
index 90d25aac..9bfd96ab 100644
--- a/ip/ipxfrm.c
+++ b/ip/ipxfrm.c
@@ -351,7 +351,12 @@ static const char *strxf_time(__u64 time)
 		t = (long)time;
 		tp = localtime(&t);
 
-		strftime(str, sizeof(str), "%Y-%m-%d %T", tp);
+		if (!tp) {
+			/* Handle error case */
+			strcpy(str, "invalid-time");
+		} else {
+			strftime(str, sizeof(str), "%Y-%m-%d %T", tp);
+		}
 	}
 
 	return str;
-- 
2.30.2


             reply	other threads:[~2025-02-16  2:25 UTC|newest]

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2025-02-16  2:25 Anton Moryakov [this message]
2025-02-16  4:41 ` [PATCH] ip: handle NULL return from localtime in strxf_time in Stephen Hemminger

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