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

[Ming Zhang]

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?

> +	args.servername = clientname;
> +
>  	/* Create RPC client */
>  	cb->cb_client = rpc_create(&args);
>  	if (IS_ERR(cb->cb_client)) {
> 
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