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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] ethdev: check for invalid device name
@ 2019-03-14 16:20 Stephen Hemminger
  2019-03-14 16:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2019-03-14 16:20 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>
---
v3 -- fix whitespace issue

 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..cf69daaf3224 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

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2019-03-14 16:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-15  1:13 ` Zhang, Qi Z
2019-03-15  1:13   ` Zhang, Qi Z
2019-03-21 18:51   ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-21 18:51     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-18 12:32 ` Ali Alnubani
2019-03-18 12:32   ` Ali Alnubani
2019-03-20 14:28 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-20 14:28   ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-20 17:52   ` Stephen Hemminger
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