From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] metrics: fix potential missing NULL termination
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:33:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88c28dcd-3d5e-f88c-4c3a-53cb94b356e7@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180220160559.1143-1-remy.horton@intel.com>
On 2/20/2018 4:05 PM, Remy Horton wrote:
> Fixes a potential memory overrun detected by Coverity.
> This overrun cannot currently happen in practice because
> rte_metrics_reg_names() explicitly forces the last name
> character to be a NULL terminator. This patch adds the
> same enforcement to rte_metrics_get_names() in order to
> correct the warning, as well as using snprintf instead
> of strncpy to copy name strings.
There is a patch from Bruce to convert snprintf to strlcpy [1], this patch can
be part of that one.
[1]
https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/35976/
>
> Coverity issue: 143434
> Fixes: 349950ddb9c5 ("metrics: add information metrics library")
> Fixes: 710cab6f675a ("metrics: fix out of bound access")
>
> Signed-off-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-22 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-20 14:50 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] " Remy Horton
2018-02-20 15:11 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-02-20 15:32 ` Remy Horton
2018-02-20 16:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Remy Horton
2018-03-22 10:33 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2018-04-04 14:09 ` Thomas Monjalon
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