/**
* A random number used to "authenticate" the connection.
*
- * para_server picks this number by random before forking the afs process. The
- * command handlers write this number together with the id of the shared memory
- * area containing the query. This way, a malicious local user has to know this
- * number to be able to cause the afs process to crash by sending fake queries.
+ * para_server picks this number by random before it forks the afs process. The
+ * command handlers know this number as well and write it to the afs socket,
+ * together with the id of the shared memory area which contains the payload of
+ * the afs command. A local process has to know this number to abuse the afs
+ * service provided by the local socket.
*/
extern uint32_t afs_socket_cookie;
{
struct msghdr msg = {.msg_iov = NULL};
struct cmsghdr *cmsg;
- char control[255];
+ char control[255] __a_aligned(8);
int ret;
struct iovec iov;
}
/* Never fails if arg == NULL */
-static int activate_mood_or_playlist(char *arg, int *num_admissible)
+static int activate_mood_or_playlist(const char *arg, int *num_admissible)
{
enum play_mode mode;
int ret;
- PARA_INFO_LOG("new playlist: %s\n", arg);
if (!arg) {
ret = change_current_mood(NULL); /* always successful */
mode = PLAY_MODE_MOOD;
static int com_select_callback(struct afs_callback_arg *aca)
{
- char *arg = aca->query.data;
+ const char *arg = aca->query.data;
int num_admissible, ret;
ret = clear_score_table();