[collectd] PATCH ipmi off by one error

[Florian Forster]

Hi Peter,

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:16:40PM +0100, Peter Holik wrote:
> One of my ipmi sensors has a name longer than DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN and
> this results in a SEGV.

thanks for the patch, I've applied it to the collectd-4.5 branch so it
goes into the next patch releases.

I have to admit I'm a bit surprised that you patch is supposed to fix
that problem:

If the sensor's name is longer than the buffer, then after this line
  len = DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN - strlen(sensor_name) - 1;
len should be 0 (zero), because `strlen(sensor_name)' will be
`DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN - 1'. After this line
  strncat(sensor_name, " ", len--);
len should therefore be `-1'. When this line is executed
  strncat(sensor_name, ipmi_entity_get_entity_id_string(ent), len);
len (an integer) is casted to `size_t', usually an unsigned integer
value..

I'll probably see if I can come up with another work-around that doesn't
rely on `size_t' being signed..

Regards,
-octo
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