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Diffstat (limited to 'src/basic/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/basic/util.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/util.c b/src/basic/util.c index f01f5f237b..86aacad307 100644 --- a/src/basic/util.c +++ b/src/basic/util.c @@ -373,6 +373,19 @@ int parse_pid(const char *s, pid_t* ret_pid) { return 0; } +bool uid_is_valid(uid_t uid) { + + /* Some libc APIs use UID_INVALID as special placeholder */ + if (uid == (uid_t) 0xFFFFFFFF) + return false; + + /* A long time ago UIDs where 16bit, hence explicitly avoid the 16bit -1 too */ + if (uid == (uid_t) 0xFFFF) + return false; + + return true; +} + int parse_uid(const char *s, uid_t* ret_uid) { unsigned long ul = 0; uid_t uid; @@ -389,13 +402,11 @@ int parse_uid(const char *s, uid_t* ret_uid) { if ((unsigned long) uid != ul) return -ERANGE; - /* Some libc APIs use UID_INVALID as special placeholder */ - if (uid == (uid_t) 0xFFFFFFFF) - return -ENXIO; - - /* A long time ago UIDs where 16bit, hence explicitly avoid the 16bit -1 too */ - if (uid == (uid_t) 0xFFFF) - return -ENXIO; + if (!uid_is_valid(uid)) + return -ENXIO; /* we return ENXIO instead of EINVAL + * here, to make it easy to distuingish + * invalid numeric uids invalid + * strings. */ if (ret_uid) *ret_uid = uid; |