Re: Segfault in getifaddrs_internal in glibc-2.20

[Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>]

On 13/09/14 18:18, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> writes:
> 
>> diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
>> b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
>> index 2c04e17..1fa4960 100644
>> --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
>> +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
>> @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ getifaddrs_internal (struct ifaddrs **ifap)
>>  		      unsigned int preflen;
>>
>>  		      if ((max_prefixlen > 0) &&
>> -			  (ifam->ifa_prefixlen > max_prefixlen))
>> +			  (max_prefixlen > ifam->ifa_prefixlen))
>>  			preflen = max_prefixlen;
>>  		      else
>>  			preflen = ifam->ifa_prefixlen;
>>
>>
>> This seems to fix the issue for them.  After looking at the code for a
>> long time, I am still not sure if this is the correct fix.  Can anyone
>> confirm/deny?
> 
> That doesn't make any sense.  As the name says, max_prefixlen is the
> limit for the prefix length, but this makes it always equal to
> max_prefixlen (which is always > 0 here).  The bug is of course that
> commit d89b3d8 doesn't handle a prefix length of zero.
>

Ah - that explains it!  I could not figure out how the above patch
"fixed" the issue.

This fix looks good to me.

Allan

> 
> 	[BZ #17371]
> 	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c (getifaddrs_internal): Fix
> 	last change to handle zero prefix length.
> ---
>  sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c | 11 ++++-------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
> index 2c04e17..a47b2ed 100644
> --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
> +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ifaddrs.c
> @@ -770,20 +770,17 @@ getifaddrs_internal (struct ifaddrs **ifap)
>  
>  		  if (cp != NULL)
>  		    {
> -		      char c;
>  		      unsigned int preflen;
>  
> -		      if ((max_prefixlen > 0) &&
> -			  (ifam->ifa_prefixlen > max_prefixlen))
> +		      if (ifam->ifa_prefixlen > max_prefixlen)
>  			preflen = max_prefixlen;
>  		      else
>  			preflen = ifam->ifa_prefixlen;
>  
> -		      for (i = 0; i < ((preflen - 1) / 8); i++)
> +		      for (i = 0; i < preflen / 8; i++)
>  			*cp++ = 0xff;
> -		      c = 0xff;
> -		      c <<= ((128 - preflen) % 8);
> -		      *cp = c;
> +		      if (preflen % 8)
> +			*cp = 0xff << (8 - preflen % 8);
>  		    }
>  		}
>  	    }
>