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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [nft PATCH v2 1/4] evaluate: Fix datalen checks in expr_evaluate_string()
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 18:37:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160905163734.GA16488@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1472578792-2991-2-git-send-email-phil@nwl.cc>

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:39:49PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> I have been told that the flex scanner won't return empty strings, so
> strlen(data) should always be greater 0. To avoid a hard to debug issue
> though, add an assert() to make sure this is always the case before
> risking an unsigned variable underrun.
> 
> A real issue though is the check for 'datalen - 1 >= 0', which will
> never fail due to datalen being unsigned. Fix this by incrementing both
> sides by one, hence checking 'datalen >= 1'.

Applied, thanks Phil.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-05 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-30 17:39 [nft PATCH v2 0/4] A round of covscan indicated fixes Phil Sutter
2016-08-30 17:39 ` [nft PATCH v2 1/4] evaluate: Fix datalen checks in expr_evaluate_string() Phil Sutter
2016-09-05 16:37   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-08-30 17:39 ` [nft PATCH v2 2/4] netlink_delinearize: Avoid potential null pointer deref Phil Sutter
2016-09-05 16:52   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-09-06 14:17     ` Phil Sutter
2016-08-30 17:39 ` [nft PATCH v2 3/4] stmt_evaluate_reset: Have a generic fix for missing network context Phil Sutter
2016-09-05 16:53   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-08-30 17:39 ` [nft PATCH v2 4/4] evaluate: Avoid undefined behaviour in concat_subtype_id() Phil Sutter
2016-09-05 17:09   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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