fix: ics27 check packet data length explicitly over nil check (#1882) (…

…#1898) * using len check in favour of nil check for interchain account packet data * adding changelog * updating changelog (cherry picked from commit 73fdde9) Co-authored-by: Damian Nolan <[email protected]>
cosmos · Aug 7, 2022 · 424b83f · 424b83f
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ Ref: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
 
 ### State Machine Breaking
 
+* (apps/27-interchain-accounts) [\#1882](https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/pull/1882) Explicitly check length of interchain account packet data in favour of nil check.
+
 ### Improvements
 
 * (app/20-transfer) [\#1680](https://github.com/cosmos/ibc-go/pull/1680) Adds migration to correct any malformed trace path information of tokens with denoms that contains slashes. The transfer module consensus version has been bumped to 2.

diff --git a/modules/apps/27-interchain-accounts/types/packet.go b/modules/apps/27-interchain-accounts/types/packet.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ func (iapd InterchainAccountPacketData) ValidateBasic() error {
 		return sdkerrors.Wrap(ErrInvalidOutgoingData, "packet data type cannot be unspecified")
 	}
 
-	if iapd.Data == nil {
+	if len(iapd.Data) == 0 {
 		return sdkerrors.Wrap(ErrInvalidOutgoingData, "packet data cannot be empty")
 	}
 

diff --git a/modules/apps/27-interchain-accounts/types/packet_test.go b/modules/apps/27-interchain-accounts/types/packet_test.go
@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ func (suite *TypesTestSuite) TestValidateBasic() {
 		},
 		{
 			"empty data",
+			types.InterchainAccountPacketData{
+				Type: types.EXECUTE_TX,
+				Data: []byte{},
+				Memo: "memo",
+			},
+			false,
+		},
+		{
+			"nil data",
 			types.InterchainAccountPacketData{
 				Type: types.EXECUTE_TX,
 				Data: nil,