From: Hangbin Liu
> Sent: 06 September 2016 07:40
> ftell() may return -1 in error case, which is not handled and therefore pass a
> negative offset to fseek(). The return code of fseek() is also not checked.
> 
> Reported-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  ip/iproute.c | 11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ip/iproute.c b/ip/iproute.c
> index 3da23af..ba877dc 100644
> --- a/ip/iproute.c
> +++ b/ip/iproute.c
> @@ -1859,7 +1859,11 @@ static int iproute_restore(void)
>       if (route_dump_check_magic())
>               exit(-1);
> 
> -     pos = ftell(stdin);
> +     if ((pos = ftell(stdin)) == -1) {

Don't put assignments in conditionals.

> +             perror("Failed to restore: ftell");
> +             exit(errno);

errno is not a valid argument to exit().

...

Actually WTF is this code trying to do.
stdin is very likely to be a pipe, so expecting to seek on it
seems very likely to fail.

        David



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