[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] app/procinfo: buffer null termination fix.

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Sat May 6 11:03:47 CEST 2017


21/04/2017 17:06, Roman Korynkevych:
> Coverity issue: 143252
> Fixes: 2deb6b5246d7706448d070335b329d1acb754cee ("app/procinfo: add collectd format and host id")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Korynkevych <romanx.korynkevych at intel.com>
> ---
>  app/proc_info/main.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/app/proc_info/main.c b/app/proc_info/main.c
> index 16b27b2..97d0352 100644
> --- a/app/proc_info/main.c
> +++ b/app/proc_info/main.c
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ proc_info_preparse_args(int argc, char **argv)
>  				proc_info_usage(prgname);
>  				return -1;
>  			}
> -			strncpy(host_id, argv[i+1], sizeof(host_id));
> +			strncpy(host_id, argv[i+1], sizeof(host_id)-1);

The full array size should be given to strncpy.
However, the call to gethostname below seems wrong as
it does not use the full size.

Maryam, Reshma,
Please review the procinfo patches.


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