Hi, My previous attempt still left the door open for the ":192.168.1.1" case to sneak through. The following handled everything I could dream up correctly: --- a/musl/src/network/inet_pton.c +++ b/musl/src/network/inet_pton.c @@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ return -1; } -int inet_pton(int af, const char *restrict s, void *restrict a0) +int inet_pton(int af, const char *restrict s0, void *restrict a0) { uint16_t ip[8]; unsigned char *a = a0; - const char *z; + const char *z,*s = s0; unsigned long x; int i, j, v, d, brk=-1, need_v4=0; @@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ *a++ = ip[j]>>8; *a++ = ip[j]; } + + /* IPv4 dotted-quad should have valid IPv6 in front*/ + if ((s-s0) <2) return 0; + if (need_v4 && inet_pton(AF_INET, (void *)s, a-4) <= 0) return 0; return 1; } On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Paul Schutte wrote: > Hi Rich, > > Unfortunately this is not the complete fix. > > Haproxy still complains about invalid networks. > > The following seems to fix the problem without adding too much bloat: > > --- a/musl/src/network/inet_pton.c > +++ b/musl/src/network/inet_pton.c > @@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ > return -1; > } > > -int inet_pton(int af, const char *restrict s, void *restrict a0) > +int inet_pton(int af, const char *restrict s0, void *restrict a0) > { > uint16_t ip[8]; > unsigned char *a = a0; > - const char *z; > + const char *z,*s = s0; > unsigned long x; > int i, j, v, d, brk=-1, need_v4=0; > > @@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ > *a++ = ip[j]>>8; > *a++ = ip[j]; > } > + > + /* There must have been valid IPv6 preceding IPv4 dotted-quad */ > + if (s==s0) return 0; > + > if (need_v4 && inet_pton(AF_INET, (void *)s, a-4) <= 0) return 0; > return 1; > } > > > > Regards > Paul > > > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Paul Schutte wrote: > >> Hi Rich, >> >> I agree with you, especially about the bloat part. >> >> They (haproxy) actually use this function to determine whether the >> address they have is a valid IPv6 address. >> They pass in either a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address and then rely on this >> function to determine which they have (assuming a return value of 0). >> >> After reading the spec more carefully I realise that -1 should be >> returned only when the address family is not AF_INET or AF_INET6. >> >> By changing the return value in the IPv6 code to 0 instead of -1, we >> could get the correct behaviour without any extra code. >> >> Here is a patch to try and save you a bit of work: >> >> --- a/musl/src/network/inet_pton.c >> +++ b/musl/src/network/inet_pton.c >> @@ -46,24 +46,24 @@ >> if (!s[1]) break; >> continue; >> } >> - if (hexval(s[0])<0) return -1; >> + if (hexval(s[0])<0) return 0; >> while (s[0]=='0' && s[1]=='0') s++; >> for (v=j=0; j<5 && (d=hexval(s[j]))>=0; j++) >> v=16*v+d; >> - if (v > 65535) return -1; >> + if (v > 65535) return 0; >> ip[i] = v; >> if (!s[j]) { >> - if (brk<0 && i!=7) return -1; >> + if (brk<0 && i!=7) return 0; >> break; >> } >> if (i<7) { >> if (s[j]==':') continue; >> - if (s[j]!='.') return -1; >> + if (s[j]!='.') return 0; >> need_v4=1; >> i++; >> break; >> } >> - return -1; >> + return 0; >> } >> if (brk>=0) { >> memmove(ip+brk+7-i, ip+brk, 2*(i+1-brk)); >> @@ -73,6 +73,6 @@ >> *a++ = ip[j]>>8; >> *a++ = ip[j]; >> } >> - if (need_v4 &&inet_pton(AF_INET, (void *)s, a-4) <= 0) return -1; >> + if (need_v4 &&inet_pton(AF_INET, (void *)s, a-4) <= 0) return 0; >> return 1; >> } >> >> Regards >> Paul >> >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Rich Felker wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Paul Schutte wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > I came across this and believe it is a bug. >>> > >>> > I have found that when you set str to an IPv4 addr of the from >>> > "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' while the address family is AF_INET6, then instead of >>> > returning a 0 to indicate an invalid IPv6 string, it is converted to >>> > gibberish. >>> >>> From what I can tell, it's not converted to gibberish; instead, it's >>> wrongly returning an error (-1) instead of a result indicating an >>> invalid input string (0). One could argue that it's a programming >>> error not to check this, but inet_pton should not have any reason to >>> return -1 if the first argument (af) is valid, so one could also argue >>> that such checks would be extraneous bloat. >>> >>> > inet_pton(AF_INET6, "192.168.1.1', &sa) should return 0 if I >>> understand the >>> > specification correctly. >>> >>> Agreed. >>> >>> Rich >>> >> >> >