Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Use _K_SS_MAXSIZE instead of absolute value

From: Breno Leitao
Date: Wed Jul 19 2023 - 13:19:02 EST


On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 10:04:45AM -0700, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> From: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:44:12 -0700
> > Looking at sk_getsockopt function, it is unclear why 128 is a magical
> > number.
> >
> > Use the proper macro, so it becomes clear to understand what the value
> > mean, and get a reference where it is coming from (user-exported API).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > net/core/sock.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
> > index 9370fd50aa2c..58b6f00197d6 100644
> > --- a/net/core/sock.c
> > +++ b/net/core/sock.c
> > @@ -1815,7 +1815,7 @@ int sk_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> >
> > case SO_PEERNAME:
> > {
> > - char address[128];
> > + char address[_K_SS_MAXSIZE];
>
> I guess you saw a bug caught by the fortified memcpy(), but this
> doesn't fix it properly.

Not really, in fact. I was reading this code, and I found this
discussion a while ago, where I got the idea:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20140930.005925.995989898229686123.davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/