Re: [net-next,v9,03/15] quic: provide common utilities and data structures
From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-02-05 11:55:06
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This is an AI-generated review of your patch. The human sending this email has considered the AI review valid, or at least plausible. For local reproduction steps see https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/ai-local.html --- quic: provide common utilities and data structures This patch provides foundational data structures and utilities for the QUIC stack, including hash tables for socket lookup, connection ID management, and helpers for encoding/decoding transport parameters.
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diff --git a/net/quic/common.c b/net/quic/common.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..94321f3f213d --- /dev/null +++ b/net/quic/common.c
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+/* Reads a QUIC transport parameter value. */
+u8 quic_get_param(u64 *pdest, u8 **pp, u32 *plen)
+{
+ u64 valuelen;
+
+ if (!quic_get_var(pp, plen, &valuelen))
+ return 0;
+
+ if (*plen < valuelen)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (!quic_get_var(pp, plen, pdest))
+ return 0;
+
+ return (u8)valuelen;
+}Does quic_get_param() need to verify that quic_get_var() consumed exactly valuelen bytes? The function reads valuelen at the first quic_get_var() call, then decodes the value with the second quic_get_var(). However, quic_get_var() determines how many bytes to consume based on the varint prefix in the data, not from valuelen. If a malformed packet has valuelen=2 but the varint encoding requires 4 bytes, quic_get_var() will consume 4 bytes while the function returns valuelen=2. This could desynchronize parsing of subsequent parameters since the caller expects the buffer to have advanced by valuelen bytes based on the return value.
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diff --git a/net/quic/common.h b/net/quic/common.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..bfec0aaf2907 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/quic/common.h
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+#define QUIC_CONN_ID_MAX_LEN 20
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+struct quic_conn_id {
+ u8 data[QUIC_CONN_ID_MAX_LEN];
+ u8 len;
+};
+
+static inline void quic_conn_id_update(struct quic_conn_id *conn_id, u8 *data, u32 len)
+{
+ memcpy(conn_id->data, data, len);
+ conn_id->len = (u8)len;
+}Should quic_conn_id_update() validate that len does not exceed QUIC_CONN_ID_MAX_LEN before the memcpy? The destination buffer conn_id->data is a 20-byte array, but the len parameter is u32 with no bounds check. If a caller passes len > 20, the memcpy would overflow the buffer.