From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ciara.power@intel.com,
roretzla@linux.microsoft.com,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] telemetry: remove VLA in json string format function
Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 09:12:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8w1JH28Eea=MLdBsYco5Via9DVZtmFbsJ85MTjSXr6o4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230405160326.186921-6-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 6:05 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Since variable length arrays (VLAs) are potentially insecure and
> unsupported by some compilers, rework the code to remove their use. As
> with previous changes to remove VLAs in the telemetry code, this
> function uses two methods to avoid modifying the buffer when adding to
> it fails:
> * if there are only a few characters in the buffer, save them off to
> restore on failure, then use the buffer as-is,
> * otherwise use malloc rather than a VLA to allocate a temporary buffer
> and copy from that on success only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
> app/test/test_telemetry_json.c | 2 +-
> lib/telemetry/telemetry_json.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
This change triggers a unit test failure ("interestingly" only with
gcc, I can't reproduce with clang).
$ ninja -C build-gcc && ./build-gcc/app/test/dpdk-test --no-huge -m
2048 --iova=va -- telemetry_json_autotest
ninja: Entering directory `build-gcc'
ninja: no work to do.
EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 16
EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1
EAL: Detected shared linkage of DPDK
EAL: Multi-process socket /run/user/114840/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'VA'
APP: HPET is not enabled, using TSC as default timer
RTE>>telemetry_json_autotest
test_basic_array: buf = '["meaning of life",42]', expected =
'["meaning of life",42]'
OK
test_basic_obj: buf = '{"weddings":4,"funerals":1}', expected =
'{"weddings":4,"funerals":1}'
OK
test_overflow_array: buf = '', expected = '["Arsenal","Chelsea"]'
ERROR
Test Failed
I guess we need:
diff --git a/lib/telemetry/telemetry_json.h b/lib/telemetry/telemetry_json.h
index 7999535848..7a246deacb 100644
--- a/lib/telemetry/telemetry_json.h
+++ b/lib/telemetry/telemetry_json.h
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ __json_format_str(char *buf, const int len, const
char *prefix, const char *str,
ret = __json_format_str_to_buf(tmp, len, prefix, str, suffix);
if (ret > 0)
- strcpy(buf, saved);
+ strcpy(buf, tmp);
free(tmp);
return ret;
--
David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-25 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-10 18:18 [PATCH] telemetry: fix autotest failures on Alpine Bruce Richardson
2023-03-10 19:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-03-13 9:38 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-04-05 15:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] telemetry: remove variable length arrays Bruce Richardson
2023-04-05 15:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] telemetry: fix autotest failures on Alpine Bruce Richardson
2023-04-07 19:21 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-04-11 8:43 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-04-05 15:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] telemetry: remove variable length array in printf fn Bruce Richardson
2023-04-05 15:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] telemetry: split out body of json string format fn Bruce Richardson
2023-04-05 15:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] telemetry: rename local variables Bruce Richardson
2023-04-05 15:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] telemetry: remove VLA in json string format function Bruce Richardson
2023-04-05 16:03 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] telemetry: remove variable length arrays Bruce Richardson
2023-04-05 16:03 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] telemetry: fix autotest failures on Alpine Bruce Richardson
2023-04-07 19:22 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-04-05 16:03 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] telemetry: remove variable length array in printf fn Bruce Richardson
2023-04-07 19:25 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-04-05 16:03 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] telemetry: split out body of json string format fn Bruce Richardson
2023-04-07 19:28 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-04-05 16:03 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] telemetry: rename local variables Bruce Richardson
2023-04-07 19:50 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-04-11 8:58 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-04-05 16:03 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] telemetry: remove VLA in json string format function Bruce Richardson
2023-04-07 19:54 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-05-25 7:12 ` David Marchand [this message]
2023-05-24 20:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] telemetry: remove variable length arrays Thomas Monjalon
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