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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/2] batctl: Use netlink when available, rather than debugfs
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:55:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1765345.Svy6en6aiH@sven-edge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461876897-12677-3-git-send-email-andrew@lunn.ch>

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On Thursday 28 April 2016 22:54:57 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> The kernel has gained support for exporting information via netlink.
> Use this when available, rather than debugfs. Netlink has the
> advantage of being network name space aware, where as debugfs is not.
> 
> If netlink is not available, batctl will fall back to debugfs, so
> should be backwards compatible with older kernel versions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> ---
[...]
> +	addr = nla_data(attrs[BATADV_ATTR_TT_ADDRESS]);
> +	orig = nla_data(attrs[BATADV_ATTR_ORIG_ADDRESS]);
> +	vid = nla_get_u16(attrs[BATADV_ATTR_TT_VID]);
> +	ttvn = nla_get_u8(attrs[BATADV_ATTR_TT_TTVN]);
> +	last_ttvn = nla_get_u8(attrs[BATADV_ATTR_TT_LAST_TTVN]);
> +	crc32 = nla_get_u32(attrs[BATADV_ATTR_TT_CRC32]);
> +	flags = nla_get_u32(attrs[BATADV_ATTR_TT_FLAGS]);

You are accessing a lot of data without checking if it exists and is from the 
correct type. This was discussed in an earlier mail [1].

Kind regards,
	Sven

[1] https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2016-March/014722.html

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-29  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-28 20:54 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 0/2] batctl: Netlink support Andrew Lunn
2016-04-28 20:54 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/2] batctl: Document a network namespaces example Andrew Lunn
2016-04-28 20:54 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/2] batctl: Use netlink when available, rather than debugfs Andrew Lunn
2016-04-29  5:55   ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
2016-04-29  6:12   ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-04-29 12:27     ` Andrew Lunn
2016-04-29 12:30       ` Sven Eckelmann

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