Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Add boundary check on ioctl arguments

[Hannes Eder]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 17:18, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:38:12 +0200
> Hannes Eder <heder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  > @@ -2353,17 +2357,25 @@ do_ip_vs_get_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd,
>>  > void __user
>> *user, int *len)
>>  >  {
>>  >    unsigned char arg[128];
>>
>> can MAX_ARG_LEN be used here?
>
> I am not convinced... it is a different numerical value,
> so it could be an ABI change. Rather not do that in this
> type of patch...

For do_ip_vs_set_ctl MAX_ARG_LEN is used:

static int
do_ip_vs_set_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, void __user *user, unsigned int len)
{
	int ret;
	unsigned char arg[MAX_ARG_LEN];
...

I assume that will be fine for do_ip_vs_get_ctl as well.

-Hannes
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