[dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH] trace: fix build with gcc 10

[Sunil Kumar Kori <skori@marvell.com>]

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On 27-Apr-2020 10:18 PM, Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com> wrote:
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> GCC 10 compiling output:
> eal_common_trace_utils.c: In function 'eal_trace_dir_args_save':
> eal_common_trace_utils.c:290:24: error: '__builtin___sprintf_chk'   \
>         may write a terminating nul past the end of the destination \
>         [-Werror=format-overflow=]
>   290 |  sprintf(dir_path, "%s/", optarg);
>       |                        ^
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> Fixes: 8af866df8d8c ("trace: add trace directory configuration parameter")
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Hello, there is one more thread going on regarding this. Please have a look on below patch.
http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69382/

I have two points:
1. Will this patch resolves both mentioned warnings/error in  patch 69382 ?
2. David has suggested another way of doing it. Please check that too.

> Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Lijian Zhang <lijian.zhang@arm.com>
> Tested-by: Lijian Zhang <lijian.zhang@arm.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c
> index fce8892..c079642 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c
> @@ -276,7 +276,10 @@ eal_trace_dir_args_save(char const *optarg)
>                  return -EINVAL;
>          }
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> -       if (strlen(optarg) >= size) {
> +       /* the specified trace directory name cannot
> +        * exceed PATH_MAX-1.
> +        */
> +       if (strlen(optarg) >= (size - 1)) {
>                  trace_err("input string is too big");
>                  return -ENAMETOOLONG;
>          }
> --
> 2.7.4
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