Re: [iproute PATCH] ip netns: Make sure netns name is sane

[Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 09:38:34AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:19:12 +0200
> Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
> 
> > +static bool is_basename(const char *name)
> > +{
> > +	char *name_dup = strdup(name);
> > +	bool rc = true;
> > +
> > +	if (!name_dup)
> > +		return false;
> > +
> > +	if (strcmp(basename(name_dup), name))
> > +		rc = false;
> > +
> > +	free(name_dup);
> > +	return rc;
> > +}
> 
> Looks like natural place to use strdupa.
> 
> static bool is_basename(const char *name)
> {
> 	return strcmp(basename(strdupa(name), name) == 0;
> }

Good point! Anyway, my patch fails to cover 'ip netns del' command
(apart from the '..' issue), so I'd suggest to instead apply Matteo's
version (Message-ID 20170710120831.9355-1-mcroce@redhat.com).

Thanks, Phil