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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 07/18] net/nfp/nfpcore: off-by-one and no
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On 05/11/2018 06:33 PM, De Lara Guarch, Pablo wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Andy Green
>> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 2:46 AM
>> To: dev@dpdk.org
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 07/18] net/nfp/nfpcore: off-by-one and no NUL
>> on strncpy use
>>
>> /home/agreen/projects/dpdk/drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c:
>> 76:2:error: ‘strncpy’ output may be truncated copying 8 bytes from a string of
>> length 8 [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
>>    strncpy(name_pad, res->name, sizeof(name_pad));
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c |   10 ++++++----
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c
>> b/drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c
>> index e1df2b2e1..dd41fa4de 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_resource.c
> 
> ...
> 
>> -	memset(name_pad, 0, NFP_RESOURCE_ENTRY_NAME_SZ);
>> -	strncpy(name_pad, res->name, sizeof(name_pad));
>> +	memset(name_pad, 0, sizeof(name_pad));
>> +	strlcpy(name_pad, res->name, sizeof(name_pad));
> 
> I think memset is not required, as strlcpy already null terminate the buffer.

It seems required to keep it, because of the exciting code just below it:

         /* Search for a matching entry */
         if (!memcmp(name_pad, NFP_RESOURCE_TBL_NAME "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 
8)) {
                 printf("Grabbing device lock not supported\n");
                 return -EOPNOTSUPP;
         }

-Andy

> ...
> 
> Missing fixes line.
> 
> Fixes: c7e9729da6b5 ("net/nfp: support CPP")
> 
> Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
>