Hi Mikhail,
I see, yes. The reason nothing happens (not out of coincidences :-)) is
that all the reads are checking whether we are in the context of a tee
plugin (which does not apply to pmacctd / uacctd). But i agree with you:
that is recipe for potential disaster so i committed a memset() there:
https://github.com/pmacct/pmacct/commit/ff77d4ba58c5e11205577dff32fe1696bfca360d
Thanks very much for your input!
Paolo
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 11:03:03AM +0100, Mikhail Sennikovsky wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> The pm_pcap_cb has however its own instance of struct plugin_requests
> req :
> https://github.com/pmacct/pmacct/blob/d72440dc9a7d0d0a7ed9502f1dd31b90105b1d95/src/nl.c#L51
> ,
> and noone zeroes it up before using it seems.
>
> Mikhail
>
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 02:25, Paolo Lucente wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Mikhail,
> >
> > If you see all the daemons that make use of the 'req' structure have a
> > memset() for 'req' shortly after its declaration. For example here in
> > pmacctd: https://github.com/pmacct/pmacct/blob/master/src/pmacctd.c#L360
> >
> > Paolo
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 07:10:13PM +0100, Mikhail Sennikovsky wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I was running through the pm_pcap_cb code, and it looks like the "req"
> > > passed to exec_plugins(&pptrs, &req); at
> > > https://github.com/pmacct/pmacct/blob/d72440dc9a7d0d0a7ed9502f1dd31b90105b1d95/src/nl.c#L167
> > > and to load_id_file at
> > > https://github.com/pmacct/pmacct/blob/d72440dc9a7d0d0a7ed9502f1dd31b90105b1d95/src/nl.c#L179
> > > and below
> > > is actually uninitialized. (See struct plugin_requests req; at
> > > https://github.com/pmacct/pmacct/blob/d72440dc9a7d0d0a7ed9502f1dd31b90105b1d95/src/nl.c#L51
> > > )
> > > Note that the exec_plugins and load_id_file actually read from req
> > > rather than write to it.
> > > If I'm getting this right, that code might be working just by coincidence.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mikhail
> > >
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