netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2] ss: Fix allocation of cong control alg name

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Date:	Fri, 29 May 2015 15:37:09 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	daniel@...earbox.net, jose.r.guzman.mosqueda@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2] ss: Fix allocation of cong control alg name

On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 15:02 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:


> Why not use strdupa? I handles arbitrary size?

I doubt this will please security guys.

RETURN VALUE
       The alloca() function returns a pointer to the beginning of the
allocated space.  If the allocation causes stack overflow, program
behavior is undefined.


Could we please stick with this 16 bytes value ?

I am confident we wont increase kernel side because of various backward
compatibility issues anyway.



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