Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#6280 closed bug (fixed)

Long network interface names cause problems

Reported by: atis.elsts Owned by: nobody
Priority: normal Milestone: R1
Component: Network & Internet Version: R1/alpha2
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description (last modified by axeld)

There is a potential crash when the length of an interface name is equal to IF_NAMESIZE. In this case the C string in the ifr_name field may not be null-terminated. This situation should be taken in account everywhere when the struct ifreq is used in the kernel and in the userspace.

To repeat: try to configure intarface alias with name '/dev/net/etherpci/0:123456789012':

ifconfig /dev/net/etherpci/0:123456789012 1.2.3.4

Change History (1)

comment:1 by axeld, 14 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Since the kernel would only cut off the extra bytes, I've just fixed the userland tools to fail earlier with the "interface name too long" message in hrev37689.

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