Attachment 2922 Details for Bug 2651 – slight improvement to patch

[patch] slight improvement to patch

longline.patch (text/plain), 2.32 KB, created by don fong on 2016-12-28 18:30:23 AEDT

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>From 3e97ac59a9a09e11cfcc1b54f3b283a56063d036 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Don Fong <dfong@apigee.com>
>Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:49:47 -0800
>Subject: [PATCH] issue error message for config file lines exceeding 1022
> chars. document the line length limitation in ssh_config(5).
>
>---
> readconf.c   | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
> ssh_config.5 |  3 +++
> 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/readconf.c b/readconf.c
>index fa3fab8..57d49cf 100644
>--- a/readconf.c
>+++ b/readconf.c
>@@ -1693,6 +1693,12 @@ read_config_file(const char *filename, struct passwd *pw, const char *host,
> 	    options, flags, &active, 0);
> }
> 
>+#define IS_NEWLINE_TERMINATED(buf, bufsize) \
>+	(strlen(buf) < (bufsize)-1 || (buf)[(bufsize)-2] == '\n')
>+
>+/* maximum line length excluding newline */
>+#define READCONF_MAX_LINE_LENGTH 1022
>+
> #define READCONF_MAX_DEPTH	16
> static int
> read_config_file_depth(const char *filename, struct passwd *pw,
>@@ -1700,7 +1706,7 @@ read_config_file_depth(const char *filename, struct passwd *pw,
>     int flags, int *activep, int depth)
> {
> 	FILE *f;
>-	char line[1024];
>+	char line[READCONF_MAX_LINE_LENGTH+2];
> 	int linenum;
> 	int bad_options = 0;
> 
>@@ -1730,6 +1736,20 @@ read_config_file_depth(const char *filename, struct passwd *pw,
> 	while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), f)) {
> 		/* Update line number counter. */
> 		linenum++;
>+
>+		/* report error if config line won't fit in buffer */
>+		if (! IS_NEWLINE_TERMINATED(line, sizeof(line))) {
>+			error("%s line %d: max line length %d exceeded",
>+			      filename, linenum, READCONF_MAX_LINE_LENGTH);
>+
>+			/* eat and discard the rest of the line */
>+			while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), f)
>+			 && ! IS_NEWLINE_TERMINATED(line, sizeof(line)))
>+				;
>+			bad_options++;
>+			continue;
>+		}
>+
> 		if (process_config_line_depth(options, pw, host, original_host,
> 		    line, filename, linenum, activep, flags, depth) != 0)
> 			bad_options++;
>diff --git a/ssh_config.5 b/ssh_config.5
>index 591365f..880a27d 100644
>--- a/ssh_config.5
>+++ b/ssh_config.5
>@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ system-wide configuration file
> .Pq Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> .El
> .Pp
>+These configuration files are line-oriented text files
>+with a maximum line length (excluding the newline) of 1022 bytes.
>+.Pp
> For each parameter, the first obtained value
> will be used.
> The configuration files contain sections separated by
>-- 
>2.7.4
>

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