DPDK patches and discussions
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ethdev: check for invalid device name
@ 2019-03-14 16:17 Stephen Hemminger
  2019-03-14 16:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2019-03-14 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev; +Cc: Stephen Hemminger

Do not allow creating a ethernet device with a name over the
allowed maximum (or zero length). This is safer than silently truncating
which is what happens now.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
---
v2 - fix zero length name test

 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
index 85c1794968dd..b19df3061d54 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
+++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
@@ -438,6 +438,18 @@ rte_eth_dev_allocate(const char *name)
 {
 	uint16_t port_id;
 	struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev = NULL;
+	size_t name_len;
+	
+	name_len = strnlen(name, RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN);
+	if (name_len == 0) {
+		RTE_ETHDEV_LOG(ERR, "Zero length Ethernet device name\n");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (name_len >= RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN) {
+		RTE_ETHDEV_LOG(ERR, "Ethernet device name is too long\n");
+		return NULL;
+	}
 
 	rte_eth_dev_shared_data_prepare();
 
-- 
2.17.1

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2019-03-14 16:17 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2019-03-14 16:17 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ethdev: check for invalid device name Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-14 16:17 ` Stephen Hemminger

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).