[or-cvs] Remove needless -2 in log code. This was not an underflow ...

Nick Mathewson nickm at seul.org
Mon Nov 29 20:39:58 UTC 2004


Update of /home/or/cvsroot/tor/src/common
In directory moria.mit.edu:/tmp/cvs-serv29546/src/common

Modified Files:
	log.c 
Log Message:
Remove needless -2 in log code.  This was not an underflow risk, sinze we only call format_msg from one place, where buf_len==10024

Index: log.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/tor/src/common/log.c,v
retrieving revision 1.80
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -u -d -r1.80 -r1.81
--- log.c	29 Nov 2004 08:40:24 -0000	1.80
+++ log.c	29 Nov 2004 20:39:55 -0000	1.81
@@ -139,10 +139,18 @@
 
   r = tor_vsnprintf(buf+n,buf_len-n,format,ap);
   if (r < 0) {
-    n = buf_len-2; /* XXX is this line redundant with the -=2 above,
-                      and also a source of underflow danger? */
-    strlcpy(buf+buf_len-TRUNCATED_STR_LEN-1, TRUNCATED_STR,
-            buf_len-(buf_len-TRUNCATED_STR_LEN-1));
+    /* The message was too long; overwrite the end of the buffer with
+     * "[...truncated]" */
+    if (buf_len >= TRUNCATED_STR_LEN) {
+      /* This is safe, since we have an extra character after buf_len
+         to hold the \0. */
+      strlcpy(buf+buf_len-TRUNCATED_STR_LEN, TRUNCATED_STR,
+              buf_len-(buf_len-TRUNCATED_STR_LEN-1));
+    }
+    /* Set 'n' to the end of the buffer, where we'll be writing \n\0.
+     * Since we already subtracted 2 from buf_len, this is safe.*/
+    n = buf_len;
+
   } else {
     n += r;
   }



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