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Bug 1967579 - rpminspect complains about use of inet_aton() and inet_ntoa()
Summary: rpminspect complains about use of inet_aton() and inet_ntoa()
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: wpa_supplicant
Version: 9.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: beta
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Assignee: Davide Caratti
QA Contact: Ken Benoit
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-06-03 12:23 UTC by Davide Caratti
Modified: 2022-01-12 11:42 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: wpa_supplicant-2.9-14.el9
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Last Closed: 2022-01-12 11:26:32 UTC
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Description Davide Caratti 2021-06-03 12:23:32 UTC 
Comparing wpa_supplicant-2.9-13.el9 with the older wpa_supplicant-2.9-12.el9 found in the "rhel-9.0.0-beta-candidate" brew tag.

Test description:
    badfuncs
Check for forbidden functions in ELF files.  Forbidden functions are defined in the runtime configuration files.  Usually this inspection is used to catch built packages that make use of deprecated API functions if you wish built packages to conform to replacement APIs.

======================================== Test Output ========================================
rpminspect:
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1) version

Result: INFO
Waiver Authorization: Not Waivable

Details:
rpminspect version 1.5



2) command line

Result: INFO
Waiver Authorization: Not Waivable

Details:
rpminspect -c /usr/share/rpminspect/redhat.yaml --format=text --arches x86_64,noarch,src --release=el9 --profile=rhel-9-devel --tests=badfuncs /workdir/36218978-wpa_supplicant-2.9-12.el9/wpa_supplicant-2.9-12.el9 /workdir/36218978-wpa_supplicant-2.9-12.el9/wpa_supplicant-2.9-13.el9



bad-functions:
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1) /usr/sbin/eapol_test may use forbidden functions on x86_64

Result: VERIFY
Waiver Authorization: Anyone

Details:
Forbidden function symbols found:
	inet_aton
	inet_ntoa


Suggested Remedy:
Forbidden symbols were found in an ELF file in the package.  The configuration settings for rpminspect indicate the named symbols are forbidden in packages.  If this is deliberate, you may want to disable the badfuncs inspection.  If it is not deliberate, check the man pages for the named symbols to see what API functions have replaced the forbidden symbols.  Usually a function is marked as deprecated but still provided in order to allow for backwards compatibility.  Whenever possible the deprecated functions should not be used.

2) /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant may use forbidden functions on x86_64

Result: VERIFY
Waiver Authorization: Anyone

Details:
Forbidden function symbols found:
	inet_aton
	inet_ntoa


Suggested Remedy:
Forbidden symbols were found in an ELF file in the package.  The configuration settings for rpminspect indicate the named symbols are forbidden in packages.  If this is deliberate, you may want to disable the badfuncs inspection.  If it is not deliberate, check the man pages for the named symbols to see what API functions have replaced the forbidden symbols.  Usually a function is marked as deprecated but still provided in order to allow for backwards compatibility.  Whenever possible the deprecated functions should not be used.
Error: exec session exited with non-zero exit code 1: OCI runtime error

I think that for wpa_supplicant the problem is: some of the functionalities implemented (like the "UDP control interface" or the WPS "external registrar") don't seem to support IPv6 at all. I think it doesn't make sense to do a replacement with inet_pton() / inet_ntop() at this point: I'm for disabling the check for "badfuncs" on wpa_supplicant.
Comment 2 Ken Benoit 2021-07-14 13:17:26 UTC 
Ran automated and manual wireless regression testing against RHEL-9.0.0-20210707.2 (wpa_supplicant-2.9-15). Testing came out clean. Verifying as SanityOnly.
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