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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	stable@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	gaetan.rivet@6wind.com, arybchenko@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bus/pci: fix allocation of PCI device path
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 11:45:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1550603.EXdslK9Pks@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181123002945.36697-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

Please, anyone for a review and a test?

23/11/2018 01:29, Ferruh Yigit:
> The pci_resource_by_index called strlen() on uninitialized
> memory which would lead to the wrong size of memory allocated
> for the path portion of the resource map. This would either cause
> excessively large allocation, or worse memory corruption.
> 
> Coverity Issue: 300868
> Fixes: ea9d56226e72 ("pci: introduce function to map uio resource by index")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_uio.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_uio.c b/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_uio.c
> index a7c14421a..09ecbb7aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_uio.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_uio.c
> @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ pci_uio_map_resource_by_index(struct rte_pci_device *dev, int res_idx,
>  	maps = uio_res->maps;
>  
>  	/* allocate memory to keep path */
> -	maps[map_idx].path = rte_malloc(NULL, strlen(devname) + 1, 0);
> +	maps[map_idx].path = rte_malloc(NULL, sizeof(devname), 0);
>  	if (maps[map_idx].path == NULL) {
>  		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot allocate memory for path: %s\n",
>  				strerror(errno));
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-23 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20181106214901.1392-2-stephen@networkplumber.org>
2018-11-23  0:29 ` [dpdk-stable] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-11-23 10:45   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-11-23 10:55     ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Andrew Rybchenko
2018-11-23 11:01   ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-11-25 10:53     ` Thomas Monjalon

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