Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] target: check hex2bin result | From | Mimi Zohar <> | Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:19:17 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 13:21 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 23:07 +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > Mimi Zohar wrote: > > > Now that hex2bin does error checking, on error add debugging error msg. > > > > We are waiting for response from Nicholas, aren't we? > > Quotuing from http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/linux-security-module/msg11570.html : > > | I was assuming that, by adding error check, hex2bin() will leave the buffer > > | uninitialized in case of bad input because hex2bin() user in Linux 3.0 can > > | return errors. Now you are a new user of hex2bin() but your code cannot return > > | errors. Nicholas, how do you want to handle bad input? > > Hi Folks, > > There is another patch queued for v3.1-final to ensure that non hex > characters are skipped in target_emulate_evpd_83() when building the NAA > IEEE Registered Extended designator. > > [PATCH-v2] target: Skip non hex characters for VPD=0x83 NAA IEEE Registered Extended > http://www.spinics.net/lists/target-devel/msg00607.html
Yes, I see. Nice to have linux-next back.
> Other than dropping this part from Mimi's patch, the two other warning > messages on conversion failure are OK in target_core_fabric_lib.c code. > > I'm happy to queue a modified version of this one for v3.2. > > --nab
thanks!
Mimi
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