packet: Give explicit name to maximum packet size

We verify that every packet we store in a pool (and every partial packet
we retreive from it) has a length no longer than UINT16_MAX.  This
originated in the older packet pool implementation which stored packet
lengths in a uint16_t.  Now, that packets are represented by a struct
iovec with its size_t length, this check serves only as a sanity / security
check that we don't have some wildly out of range length due to a bug
elsewhere.

We have may reasons to (slightly) increase this limit in future, so in
preparation, give this quantity an explicit name - PACKET_MAX_LEN.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/packet.c b/packet.c
index 0330b54..bcac037 100644
--- a/packet.c
+++ b/packet.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ void packet_add_do(struct pool *p, size_t len, const char *start,
 	if (packet_check_range(p, start, len, func, line))
 		return;
 
-	if (len > UINT16_MAX) {
+	if (len > PACKET_MAX_LEN) {
 		trace("add packet length %zu, %s:%i", len, func, line);
 		return;
 	}
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ void *packet_get_do(const struct pool *p, size_t idx, size_t offset,
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	if (len > UINT16_MAX) {
+	if (len > PACKET_MAX_LEN) {
 		if (func) {
 			trace("packet data length %zu, %s:%i",
 			      len, func, line);
diff --git a/packet.h b/packet.h
index bdc07fe..d099f02 100644
--- a/packet.h
+++ b/packet.h
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 #ifndef PACKET_H
 #define PACKET_H
 
+/* Maximum size of a single packet stored in pool, including headers */
+#define PACKET_MAX_LEN	UINT16_MAX
+
 /**
  * struct pool - Generic pool of packets stored in a buffer
  * @buf:	Buffer storing packet descriptors,