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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>,
	Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
	Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atm/clip: Use seq_puts() in svc_addr()
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 07:25:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66a18243-90fc-73c6-200a-fbbfa782d501@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75Vf-fNi-ATKd-EpkO3HDP2TZCWFc6EEU5a5r-zkZTcHQYg@mail.gmail.com>

>> @@ -708,11 +708,11 @@ static void svc_addr(struct seq_file *seq, struct sockaddr_atmsvc *addr)
>>         static int e164[] = { 1, 8, 4, 6, 1, 0 };
>>
>>         if (*addr->sas_addr.pub) {
>> -               seq_printf(seq, "%s", addr->sas_addr.pub);
>> +               seq_puts(seq, addr->sas_addr.pub);
> 
> Which opens a lot of security concerns.

How? - The passed string is just copied into a buffer finally, isn't it?


> Never do this again.

Why do you not like such a small source code transformation at the moment?


> P.S. I'm wondering what would be first,

I am curious on how communication difficulties can be adjusted.


> Markus starts looking into the actual code,

I inspected the original source code to some degree.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/fs/seq_file.c?id‰5c0dde398510a5b5ded60e5064c11b94bd30ca#n682
https://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.15-rc6/source/fs/seq_file.c#L660


> or most (all) of the maintainers just ban him.

The change acceptance is varying for various reasons by the involved contributors.

Regards,
Markus
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      reply	other threads:[~2018-01-08  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-06 21:44 [PATCH] atm/clip: Use seq_puts() in svc_addr() SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-06 22:25 ` Stefano Brivio
2018-01-07  8:19   ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-07 15:30     ` Stefano Brivio
2018-01-07 16:30       ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-01-07 22:58 ` [PATCH] " Andy Shevchenko
2018-01-08  7:25   ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]

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