[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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