[libvirt] [PATCH] network utilities: Allocate space for terminating NUL in virSocketFormatAddr
Matthew Booth
mbooth at redhat.com
Wed Nov 4 11:47:03 UTC 2009
On 04/11/09 11:06, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Are you sure about this? According to the man page for inet_ntop the
> INET*_ADDRSTRLEN macro should be long enough already:
>
> AF_INET
> src points to a struct in_addr (in network byte order) which is
> converted to an IPv4 network address in the dotted-decimal for-
> mat, "ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd". The buffer dst must be at least
> INET_ADDRSTRLEN bytes long.
>
> AF_INET6
> src points to a struct in6_addr (in network byte order) which is
> converted to a representation of this address in the most appro-
> priate IPv6 network address format for this address. The buffer
> dst must be at least INET6_ADDRSTRLEN bytes long.
No, I wasn't sure :) However, reading this and realising I miscalculated
the maximum size of an IPv4 address[1], I'll withdraw this patch.
Thanks,
Matt
[1] INET_ADDRSTRLEN == 16. I forgot there's only 3 dots, so I didn't
think it was leaving space.
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