From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>, passt-dev@passt.top
Cc: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 06/18] pif: Limit pif names to 128 bytes
Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 11:12:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0834495e-1818-406a-8737-c8e48a4cea6d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260503215601.823029-7-sbrivio@redhat.com>
On 5/3/26 23:55, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>
> All current pif names are quite short, and we expect them to remain short
> when/if we allow arbitrary pifs. However, because of the structure of
> the current code we don't enforce any limit on the length.
>
> This will become more important with dynamic configuration updates, so
> start enforcing a length limit. Specifically we allow pif names to be up
> to 128 bytes (PIF_NAME_SIZE), including the terminating \0. This is
> more or less arbitrary, but seems like it should be comfortably enough for
> all the cases we have in mind.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
There is a little typo below
> ---
> pif.c | 2 +-
> pif.h | 5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/pif.c b/pif.c
> index 1e80724..d5e3161 100644
> --- a/pif.c
> +++ b/pif.c
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
> #include "inany.h"
> #include "epoll_ctl.h"
>
> -const char *pif_type_str[] = {
> +const char pif_type_str[][PIF_NAME_SIZE] = {
> [PIF_NONE] = "<none>",
> [PIF_HOST] = "HOST",
> [PIF_TAP] = "TAP",
> diff --git a/pif.h b/pif.h
> index 7bb58e5..90dd3a3 100644
> --- a/pif.h
> +++ b/pif.h
> @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ enum pif_type {
> PIF_NUM_TYPES,
> };
>
> -extern const char *pif_type_str[];
> +/* Maxmimum size of a pif name, including \0 */
"Maximum"
> +#define PIF_NAME_SIZE (128)
> +extern const char pif_type_str[][PIF_NAME_SIZE];
>
> static inline const char *pif_type(enum pif_type pt)
> {
> @@ -43,6 +45,7 @@ static inline const char *pif_type(enum pif_type pt)
> return pif_type_str[pt];
> else
> return "?";
> + static_assert(sizeof("?") <= PIF_NAME_SIZE);
> }
>
> static inline const char *pif_name(uint8_t pif)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-04 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-03 21:55 [PATCH v6 00/18] Dynamic configuration update implementation Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 01/18] conf, fwd: Stricter rule checking in fwd_rule_add() Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 8:38 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 02/18] fwd_rule: Move ephemeral port probing to fwd_rule.c Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 03/18] fwd, conf: Move rule parsing code to fwd_rule.[ch] Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 04/18] fwd_rule: Move conflict checking back within fwd_rule_add() Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 05/18] fwd: Generalise fwd_rules_info() Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 06/18] pif: Limit pif names to 128 bytes Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 9:12 ` Laurent Vivier [this message]
2026-05-04 23:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 07/18] fwd_rule: Fix some format specifiers Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 9:59 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 08/18] pesto: Introduce stub configuration tool Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 10:51 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 09/18] pesto, log: Share log.h (but not log.c) with pesto tool Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 9:49 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:11 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 10/18] pesto, conf: Have pesto connect to passt and check versions Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 12:01 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 12:13 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 11/18] pesto: Expose list of pifs to pesto and optionally display Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 14:34 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 12/18] ip: Prepare ip.[ch] for sharing with pesto tool Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 14:52 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:10 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 13/18] inany: Prepare inany.[ch] " Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 15:37 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 14/18] pesto: Read current ruleset from passt/pasta and optionally display it Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 16:10 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:11 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 15/18] pesto: Parse and add new rules from command line Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 16:44 ` Laurent Vivier
2026-05-04 23:11 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-04 23:18 ` Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:55 ` [PATCH v6 16/18] pesto, conf: Send updated rules from pesto back to passt/pasta Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 17/18] conf, fwd: Allow switching to new rules received from pesto Stefano Brivio
2026-05-03 21:56 ` [PATCH v6 18/18] fwd_rule: Fix static checkers warnings in fwd_rule_add() Stefano Brivio
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