From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>, passt-dev@passt.top
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH v2 13/15] ip: Define a bound for the string returned by ipproto_name()
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:11:55 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260319061157.1983818-14-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260319061157.1983818-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
ipproto_name() returns a static string of theoretically unbounded length.
That's going to be inconvenient in future, so introduce IPPROTO_STRLEN
giving an explicit bound on the length. Use static_assert() and some
macros to ensure nothing we return can exceed this.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
ip.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
ip.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ip.c b/ip.c
index 4e4e0bf5..f2506bb1 100644
--- a/ip.c
+++ b/ip.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
* Author: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
*/
+#include <assert.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@
* ipproto_name() - Get IP protocol name from number
* @proto: IP protocol number
*
- * Return: pointer to name of protocol @proto
+ * Return: pointer to name of protocol @proto (<= IPPROTO_STRLEN bytes)
*
* Usually this would be done with getprotobynumber(3) but that reads
* /etc/protocols and might allocate, which isn't possible for us once
@@ -33,16 +34,21 @@
const char *ipproto_name(uint8_t proto)
{
switch (proto) {
+#define CASE(s) \
+ static_assert(sizeof(s) <= IPPROTO_STRLEN, \
+ "Increase IPPROTO_STRLEN to contain " #s); \
+ return s;
case IPPROTO_ICMP:
- return "ICMP";
+ CASE("ICMP");
case IPPROTO_TCP:
- return "TCP";
+ CASE("TCP");
case IPPROTO_UDP:
- return "UDP";
+ CASE("UDP");
case IPPROTO_ICMPV6:
- return "ICMPv6";
+ CASE("ICMPv6");
default:
- return "<unknown protocol>";
+ CASE("<unknown protocol>");
+#undef CASE
}
}
diff --git a/ip.h b/ip.h
index f6c29e00..aab9b86a 100644
--- a/ip.h
+++ b/ip.h
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ static inline uint32_t ip6_get_flow_lbl(const struct ipv6hdr *ip6h)
ip6h->flow_lbl[2];
}
+#define IPPROTO_STRLEN (sizeof("<unknown protocol>"))
const char *ipproto_name(uint8_t proto);
/* IPv6 link-local all-nodes multicast address, ff02::1 */
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-19 6:11 [PATCH v2 00/15] RFC: Read-only dynamic update implementation David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 01/15] treewide: Spell ASSERT() as assert() David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 02/15] serialise: Split functions user for serialisation from util.c David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 03/15] serialise: Add helpers for serialising unsigned integers David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 04/15] fwd: Move selecting correct scan bitmap into fwd_sync_one() David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 05/15] fwd: Look up rule index in fwd_sync_one() David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 06/15] fwd: Store forwarding tables indexed by (origin) pif David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 07/15] pesto: Introduce stub configuration interface and tool David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 08/15] pesto: Add command line option parsing and debug messages David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 09/15] pesto: Expose list of pifs to pesto David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 10/15] ip: Prepare ip.[ch] for sharing with pesto tool David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 11/15] inany: Prepare inany.[ch] " David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 12/15] fwd: Split forwading rule specification from its implementation state David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` David Gibson [this message]
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 14/15] fwd_rule: Move forwarding rule text formatting to common code David Gibson
2026-03-19 6:11 ` [PATCH v2 15/15] pesto: Read current ruleset from passt/pasta and display it David Gibson
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