Re: [NFS] [PATCH 001 of 9] knfsd: nfsd4: fix non-terminated string

[Ming Zhang]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 09:55 -0800, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Ming Zhang wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:44 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> >> From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> The server name is expected to be a null-terminated string, so we can't
> >> pass in the raw client identifier.
> >>
> >> What's more, the client identifier is just a binary, not necessarily
> >> printable, blob.  Let's just use the ip address instead.  The server
> >> name appears to exist just to help debugging by making some printk's
> >> more informative.
> >>
> >> Note that the string is copies into the rpc client structure, so
> >> the pointer to the local variable does not outlive the function call.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> ### Diffstat output
> >>  ./fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c |    7 ++++++-
> >>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff .prev/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c ./fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> >> --- .prev/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c	2007-02-13 09:50:26.000000000 +1100
> >> +++ ./fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c	2007-02-13 10:00:59.000000000 +1100
> >> @@ -387,7 +387,6 @@ nfsd4_probe_callback(struct nfs4_client 
> >>  		.address	= (struct sockaddr *)&addr,
> >>  		.addrsize	= sizeof(addr),
> >>  		.timeout	= &timeparms,
> >> -		.servername	= clp->cl_name.data,
> >>  		.program	= program,
> >>  		.version	= nfs_cb_version[1]->number,
> >>  		.authflavor	= RPC_AUTH_UNIX,	/* XXX: need AUTH_GSS... */
> >> @@ -397,6 +396,7 @@ nfsd4_probe_callback(struct nfs4_client 
> >>  		.rpc_proc       = &nfs4_cb_procedures[NFSPROC4_CLNT_CB_NULL],
> >>  		.rpc_argp       = clp,
> >>  	};
> >> +	char clientname[16];
> >>  	int status;
> >>  
> >>  	if (atomic_read(&cb->cb_set))
> >> @@ -419,6 +419,11 @@ nfsd4_probe_callback(struct nfs4_client 
> >>  	memset(program->stats, 0, sizeof(cb->cb_stat));
> >>  	program->stats->program = program;
> >>  
> >> +	/* Just here to make some printk's more useful: */
> >> +	snprintf(clientname, sizeof(clientname),
> >> +		"%u.%u.%u.%u", NIPQUAD(addr.sin_addr));
> > 
> > can use NIPQUAD_FMT here instead of "%u.%u.%u.%u".
> > 
> > btw, will the ip address here possibly be an ipv6 address?
> 
> Some patches are in the works to build in IPv6 support.  See the patch 
> series at http://oss.oracle.com/~cel/linux-2.6/2.6.19/patches/

thanks for the info.

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