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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:12:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: gorcunov@...il.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] net,socket: introduce build_sockaddr_check helper to catch overflow at build time From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:43:06 +0400 > Or say it could be something like that > > #define __sockaddr(type, src) \ > ({ build_sockaddr_check(sizeof(type)); (type *) src; }) > > and say in function af_inet.c:inet_getname instead of > > struct sockaddr_in *sin = (struct sockaddr_in *)uaddr; > > we may write like > > struct sockaddr_in *sin = __sockaddr(struct sockaddr_in, uaddr); > > which would check the size. Or even a "DECLARE_SOCKADDR(type, src, dest)" which encapsulates the entire declaration statement. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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