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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/if.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/if.h | 23 |
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog index f55578e6..6701a90d 100644 --- a/lib/ChangeLog +++ b/lib/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ 2005-04-02 Andrew J. Schorr <ajschorr@alumni.princeton.edu> + * if.h: Fix comments to reflect that if_lookup_by_name and + if_get_by_name now require the argument strings to be NUL-terminated. + * if.c: (if_lookup_by_name) Compare using strcmp. + (if_get_by_name) Pass strlen(ifname) as 2nd arg to if_create. + +2005-04-02 Andrew J. Schorr <ajschorr@alumni.princeton.edu> + * if.c: (if_nametoindex) The man page is rather vague, but it seems like the argument to if_nametoindex has an implicit maximum length of IFNAMSIZ characters. @@ -219,9 +219,7 @@ if_lookup_by_name (const char *name) for (node = listhead (iflist); node; nextnode (node)) { ifp = getdata (node); - /* Change this to strcmp once improper uses of this function - have been replaced with calls to if_lookup_by_name_len. */ - if (strncmp (name, ifp->name, sizeof ifp->name) == 0) + if (strcmp(name, ifp->name) == 0) return ifp; } return NULL; @@ -335,10 +333,8 @@ if_get_by_name (const char *name) { struct interface *ifp; - /* Replace 2nd arg to if_create with strlen(name) once improper uses of - this function have been replaced with calls to if_get_by_name_len. */ return ((ifp = if_lookup_by_name(name)) != NULL) ? ifp : - if_create(name, INTERFACE_NAMSIZ); + if_create(name, strlen(name)); } struct interface * @@ -217,20 +217,17 @@ struct interface *if_lookup_by_index (unsigned int); struct interface *if_lookup_exact_address (struct in_addr); struct interface *if_lookup_address (struct in_addr); -/* Currently, the code assumes that the interface name arguments to these - functions have length <= INTERFACE_NAMSIZ, and they must be NUL-terminated - if they are shorter than INTERFACE_NAMSIZ. After code cleanup, the - implementation will be changed to require the arguments to these functions - to terminate with a NUL character (no length limitation). */ -struct interface *if_lookup_by_name (const char *); -struct interface *if_get_by_name (const char *); - -/* For these 2 functions, the 2nd argument should be the precise length - of the interface name (not counting a trailing NUL which may or may - not be present). */ -extern struct interface *if_lookup_by_name_len(const char *name, +/* These 2 functions are to be used when the ifname argument is terminated + by a '\0' character: */ +struct interface *if_lookup_by_name (const char *ifname); +struct interface *if_get_by_name (const char *ifname); + +/* For these 2 functions, the namelen argument should be the precise length + of the ifname string (not counting any optional trailing '\0' character). + In most cases, strnlen should be used to calculate the namelen value. */ +extern struct interface *if_lookup_by_name_len(const char *ifname, size_t namelen); -extern struct interface *if_get_by_name_len(const char *name, size_t namelen); +extern struct interface *if_get_by_name_len(const char *ifname, size_t namelen); /* Delete the interface, but do not free the structure, and leave it in the |