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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Cc: stable@dpdk.org, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] examples/vm_power: fix strcpy buffer overrun
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:26:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1952380.P3yXEnfnUp@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190712144750.GB536@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>

12/07/2019 16:47, Bruce Richardson:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 03:04:02PM +0100, David Hunt wrote:
> > replace strcpy with rte_strlcpy to prevent buffer overrun
> > With fix, attempting to use a VERY lonng vm name results in a nicely
> > truncated 32 character name rather than a segfault:
> > Setting VM Name to [sdfdsfsfsdffdsdsasdsadasdakjshd]
> > 
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > Fixes: 59287933a0bb ("examples/vm_power: add options to guest app")
> > Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>

It should be in this order:

Fixes: 59287933a0bb ("examples/vm_power: add options to guest app")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>

When in doubt about formatting, please check the git history.
You will find that the recent title prefix in use was "examples/power".

> > --- a/examples/vm_power_manager/guest_cli/main.c
> > +++ b/examples/vm_power_manager/guest_cli/main.c
> > -			strcpy(policy->vm_name, optarg);
> > +			rte_strlcpy(policy->vm_name, optarg, VM_MAX_NAME_SZ);
> 
> You can just use "strlcpy" without the "rte_" prefix. The rte_ version is
> just a fallback used when a standard strlcpy - either natively or from
> libbsd - is unavailable.

Please replace the 2 other occurences of rte_strlcpy in this example
(can be in the same patch with a small comment in the commit log).



  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-14 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-12 14:04 [dpdk-stable] " David Hunt
2019-07-12 14:14 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-12 14:47 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-07-14 13:26   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-07-16  8:24 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] " David Hunt
2019-07-16 11:05   ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-16 11:23     ` Hunt, David
2019-07-16 11:19   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3] " David Hunt
2019-07-16 11:28     ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon

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