[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] eal: for safety, use snprintf instead of sprintf

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Dec 16 17:30:24 CET 2014


When printing the version string to a local variable, use snprintf for
safety over sprintf. This is general good practice even if the values
to print are all hard-coded.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_version.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_version.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_version.h
index 54cb9a6..356207c 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_version.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_version.h
@@ -104,13 +104,13 @@ rte_version(void)
 	if (version[0] != 0)
 		return version;
 	if (strlen(RTE_VER_SUFFIX) == 0)
-		sprintf(version, "%s %d.%d.%d",
+		snprintf(version, sizeof(version), "%s %d.%d.%d",
 			RTE_VER_PREFIX,
 			RTE_VER_MAJOR,
 			RTE_VER_MINOR,
 			RTE_VER_PATCH_LEVEL);
 	else
-		sprintf(version, "%s %d.%d.%d%s%d",
+		snprintf(version, sizeof(version), "%s %d.%d.%d%s%d",
 			RTE_VER_PREFIX,
 			RTE_VER_MAJOR,
 			RTE_VER_MINOR,
-- 
1.9.3



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