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authorPetr Oros <poros@redhat.com>2025-10-24 15:24:38 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2025-10-27 16:47:29 -0700
commit65f9c4c5888913c2cf5d2fc9454c83f9930d537d (patch)
tree75b3f6f0beaee44f159b834ca3d75892337f4744 /tools/docs/parse-headers.py
parent84a905290cb4c3d9a71a9e3b2f2e02e031e7512f (diff)
tools: ynl: fix string attribute length to include null terminator
The ynl_attr_put_str() function was not including the null terminator in the attribute length calculation. This caused kernel to reject CTRL_CMD_GETFAMILY requests with EINVAL: "Attribute failed policy validation". For a 4-character family name like "dpll": - Sent: nla_len=8 (4 byte header + 4 byte string without null) - Expected: nla_len=9 (4 byte header + 5 byte string with null) The bug was introduced in commit 15d2540e0d62 ("tools: ynl: check for overflow of constructed messages") when refactoring from stpcpy() to strlen(). The original code correctly included the null terminator: end = stpcpy(ynl_attr_data(attr), str); attr->nla_len = NLA_HDRLEN + NLA_ALIGN(end - (char *)ynl_attr_data(attr)); Since stpcpy() returns a pointer past the null terminator, the length included it. The refactored version using strlen() omitted the +1. The fix also removes NLA_ALIGN() from nla_len calculation, since nla_len should contain actual attribute length, not aligned length. Alignment is only for calculating next attribute position. This makes the code consistent with ynl_attr_put(). CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME uses NLA_NUL_STRING policy which requires null terminator. Kernel validates with memchr() and rejects if not found. Fixes: 15d2540e0d62 ("tools: ynl: check for overflow of constructed messages") Signed-off-by: Petr Oros <poros@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251018151737.365485-3-zahari.doychev@linux.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132438.351290-1-poros@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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