linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools/hv: Fix for long file names from readdir

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Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:50:37 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Tomas Hozza <thozza@...hat.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, olaf@...fle.de, apw@...onical.com,
	jasowang@...hat.com, kys@...rosoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools/hv: Fix for long file names from readdir

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 08:56 +0100, Tomas Hozza wrote:
> kvp_get_if_name and kvp_mac_to_if_name copy strings into statically
> sized buffers which could be too small to store really long names.
>
> Buffer sizes have been changed to PATH_MAX, include "limits.h" where
> PATH_MAX is defined was added and length checks ware added via snprintf.
[...]

PATH_MAX has nothing to do with any actual kernel limit; it's no more
meaningful than the current value of 256.  Network interface names are
limited to 15 characters, thus the current array is more than long
enough.  So I think this is entirely unnecessary.

Using snprintf() is a good idea, but you need to check the return value
and handle the truncation case somehow.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

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