[Ocfs2-devel] [patch] ocfs2: tighten up strlen() checking

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Mon Jul 12 11:33:53 PDT 2010


On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 04:33:36PM +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This function is only called from one place and it's like this:
> 	dlm_register_domain(conn->cc_name, dlm_key, &fs_version);
> 
> The "conn->cc_name" is 64 characters long.  If strlen(conn->cc_name)
> were equal to O2NM_MAX_NAME_LEN (64) that would be a bug because
> strlen() doesn't count the NULL character.
> 
> In fact, if you look how O2NM_MAX_NAME_LEN is used, it mostly describes
> 64 character buffers.  The only exception is nd_name from struct
> o2nm_node.
> 
> Anyway I looked into it and in this case the domain string comes from
> osb->uuid_str in ocfs2_setup_osb_uuid().  That's 32 characters and NULL
> which easily fits into O2NM_MAX_NAME_LEN.  This patch doesn't change how
> the code works, but I think it makes the code a little cleaner.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com>

	This patch is now in the fixes branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel

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