Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: Fix allocation of cong control alg name
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2015-06-25 03:31:22
On Fri, 29 May 2015 18:48:42 +0200 Daniel Borkmann [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
On 05/29/2015 06:17 PM, Guzman Mosqueda, Jose R wrote:quoted
Hi Daniel and Vadim Thanks for your prompt response and for the patch. Also, what about the other one? Do you think it is an issue or not? " File: tc/tc_util.c Function: void print_rate(char *buf, int len, __u64 rate) Line: ~264 In the case that user inputs a high value for rate, the "for" loop will exit in the condition meaning that variable "i" get the value of 5 which will be an invalid index for the "units" array due to that array has only 5 elements." I know a very high value is invalid but in the case that it comes directly from user, it could cause and issue, what do you think?Hm, this prints just the netlink dump from kernel side, but perhaps we should just change it ...diff --git a/tc/tc_util.c b/tc/tc_util.c index dc2b70f..aa6de24 100644 --- a/tc/tc_util.c +++ b/tc/tc_util.c@@ -250,18 +250,19 @@ void print_rate(char *buf, int len, __u64 rate) extern int use_iec; unsigned long kilo = use_iec ? 1024 : 1000; const char *str = use_iec ? "i" : ""; - int i = 0; static char *units[5] = {"", "K", "M", "G", "T"}; + int i; rate <<= 3; /* bytes/sec -> bits/sec */ - for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(units); i++) { + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(units) - 1; i++) { if (rate < kilo) break; if (((rate % kilo) != 0) && rate < 1000*kilo) break; rate /= kilo; } + snprintf(buf, len, "%.0f%s%sbit", (double)rate, units[i], str); }
I don't know what thread you meant to hijack for this, but it wasn't the one about ss: cong name.