Re: commit: ldap/libraries/libldap url.c

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Howard Chu writes:
>hallvard@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
>> 	url.c  1.103 -> 1.104
>> Declare enough buffer space for out-of-range URL port numbers
>
> It would have been better simply to never accept out-of-range port numbers.
> lud_port should have been an unsigned short instead of int. Or just test for
> the correct range on assignment and return an error as necessary.

Good point.  Not quite sure if we can expect port numbers to be < 65536
though.  (Some OS could have a non-TCP/IP network protocol and an API
with larger port numbers.)

BTW, has IPv6 only 16-bit ports?  A brief browse suggests yes; I was a
bit surprised.  I can imagine that might not scale well in the future.

Anyway, I don't think this is worth breaking binary compatibility for
now, and I just noticed that this is in desc2str_len() which does not
even produce a string, it just checks its length.  So I suggest

	if ( u->lud_port ) {
		/* ":port" or "host:port" */
		unsigned	p = u->lud_port;
		if ( p > 65535 )
			return -1;
		len += (p > 999 ? 5 + (p > 9999) : p > 99 ? 4 : 2 + (p > 9));
		...

-- 
Hallvard