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From: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>
To: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/tap: fix coverity warning on strncpy
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:39:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <554A83AA-8607-4381-8874-2D7CF97DC05F@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170217153725.50050-1-keith.wiles@intel.com>


> On Feb 17, 2017, at 9:37 AM, Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Calling strncpy with a maximum size argument of 16 bytes on destination
> array "ifr.ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name" of size 16 bytes might leave the
> destination string unterminated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
> ---
> v3 - convert strncpy to use snprintf instead.
> v2 - fix the checkpatch warning no spaces around '-'
> v1 - fix coverity warning on strncpy using invalid length.
> 
> drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
> index efc4426..cf1cea3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
> @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ tap_link_set_flags(struct pmd_internals *pmd, short flags, int add)
> 		return -1;
> 	}
> 	memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
> -	strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, pmd->name, IFNAMSIZ);
> +	strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, pmd->name, IFNAMSIZ - 1);
> 	err = ioctl(s, SIOCGIFFLAGS, &ifr);
> 	if (err < 0) {
> 		RTE_LOG(WARNING, PMD, "Unable to get %s device flags: %s\n”,

NAK :-( forgot to finish the rebase

> -- 
> 2.8.0.GIT
> 

Regards,
Keith


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