/* Returns true if 'a' and 'b' are the same except that any number of slashes
* in either string are treated as equal to any number of slashes in the other,
- * e.g. "x///y" is equal to "x/y". */
+ * e.g. "x///y" is equal to "x/y".
+ *
+ * Also, if 'b_stoplen' bytes from 'b' are found to be equal to corresponding
+ * bytes from 'a', the function considers this success. Specify 'b_stoplen' as
+ * SIZE_MAX to compare all of 'a' to all of 'b' rather than just a prefix of
+ * 'b' against a prefix of 'a'.
+ */
static bool
-equal_pathnames(const char *a, const char *b)
+equal_pathnames(const char *a, const char *b, size_t b_stoplen)
{
- while (*a == *b) {
+ const char *b_start = b;
+ while (b - b_start < b_stoplen && *a == *b) {
if (*a == '/') {
a += strspn(a, "/");
b += strspn(b, "/");
static struct vlog_rate_limit rl = VLOG_RATE_LIMIT_INIT(1, 5);
char *whitelist;
- whitelist = xasprintf("unix:%s/%s.controller",
+ if (!strncmp(c->target, "unix:", 5)) {
+ /* Connect to a listening socket */
+ whitelist = xasprintf("unix:%s/", ovs_rundir());
+ if (!equal_pathnames(c->target, whitelist,
+ strlen(whitelist))) {
+ VLOG_ERR_RL(&rl, "bridge %s: Not connecting to socket "
+ "controller \"%s\" due to possibility for "
+ "remote exploit. Instead, specify socket "
+ "in whitelisted \"%s\" or connect to "
+ "\"unix:%s/%s.mgmt\" (which is always "
+ "available without special configuration).",
+ br->name, c->target, whitelist,
ovs_rundir(), br->name);
- if (!equal_pathnames(c->target, whitelist)) {
- /* Prevent remote ovsdb-server users from accessing arbitrary
- * Unix domain sockets and overwriting arbitrary local
- * files. */
- VLOG_ERR_RL(&rl, "bridge %s: Not adding Unix domain socket "
- "controller \"%s\" due to possibility for remote "
- "exploit. Instead, specify whitelisted \"%s\" or "
- "connect to \"unix:%s/%s.mgmt\" (which is always "
- "available without special configuration).",
- br->name, c->target, whitelist,
- ovs_rundir(), br->name);
- free(whitelist);
- continue;
+ free(whitelist);
+ continue;
+ }
+ } else {
+ whitelist = xasprintf("punix:%s/%s.controller",
+ ovs_rundir(), br->name);
+ if (!equal_pathnames(c->target, whitelist, SIZE_MAX)) {
+ /* Prevent remote ovsdb-server users from accessing
+ * arbitrary Unix domain sockets and overwriting arbitrary
+ * local files. */
+ VLOG_ERR_RL(&rl, "bridge %s: Not adding Unix domain socket "
+ "controller \"%s\" due to possibility of "
+ "overwriting local files. Instead, specify "
+ "whitelisted \"%s\" or connect to "
+ "\"unix:%s/%s.mgmt\" (which is always "
+ "available without special configuration).",
+ br->name, c->target, whitelist,
+ ovs_rundir(), br->name);
+ free(whitelist);
+ continue;
+ }
}
free(whitelist);