iproute has an utility function which checks if a string is a prefix for
another one, to allow use of abbreviated commands, e.g. 'addr' or 'a'
instead of 'address'.
This routine unfortunately considers an empty string as prefix
of any pattern, leading to undefined behaviour when an empty
argument is passed to ip:
# ip ''
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
# tc ''
qdisc noqueue 0: dev lo root refcnt 2
# ip address add 192.0.2.0/24 '' 198.51.100.1 dev dummy0
# ip addr show dev dummy0
6: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 02:9d:5e:e9:3f:c0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.0.2.0/24 brd 198.51.100.1 scope global dummy0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Rewrite matches() so it takes care of an empty input, and doesn't
scan the input strings three times: the actual implementation
does 2 strlen and a memcpy to accomplish the same task.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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