[linux-cifs-client] Re: Fw: Buffer overflow in CIFS VFS.

[Przemyslaw Wegrzyn]

Steve French wrote:
> below.   The obvious need is to create an SendReceive-NoResponse (or
> equivalent) which
> frees the SMB request buffer after send, and does not copy into an smb
> response buffer.  The following functions need to be changed to use
>   
How about modifying SendReceive to behave like that if NULL is passed as
output buffer ?

>> Obviously it is up to you, as a maintainer. I'd prefer adding a small
>> header to each buffer with the buffer size and perhaps a type, or even a
>> destructor function pointer. Simple macros could be used to obtain
>> buffer size, given the buffer body pointer, or to dispose the buffer.
>> That would save from checking the buffer type all over the code
>> explicitly, or even worse, make strange assumptions about the type of
>> buffer being passed - as we can see this is error-prone. That for a
>> little cost of a few additional bytes per buffer.
>>     
> That might be better, although without memory pools, this would perform
> much worse
>   
Why ? I don't get your point here.

Przemyslaw