Hi,
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb
<bzeeb-li...@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
>> During some ipfw/dummynet cleanup i noticed that the libkern version of
>> inet_ntoa_r() is missing the buffer size argument that is present in
>> the libc counterpart.
>>
>> Any objection if i fix it ?
>
>
> And why exactly would you need it? What does libc do with it? Render
> partial IPv4 addresses?
>
Mitigate possibilities of memory corruption ? At the very least, allow
the following:
{
char tmp[sizeof "255.255.255.255"];
KASSERT(size >= (sizeof tmp));
[...]
}
to be enforced... but hey, who gives a damn about consistently doing
things and enforcing code assumptions ? ;-)
- Arnaud
> --
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>
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