[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] app/procinfo: fix strncpy count issue

Radu Nicolau radu.nicolau at intel.com
Tue Feb 20 14:52:22 CET 2018


Replace strncpy with snprintf to avoid overwriting the last
NULL character.

Fixes: 2deb6b5246d7 ("app/procinfo: add collectd format and host id")
Coverity issue: 143252

Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau at intel.com>
---
v3: replaced strncpy with snprintf

 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 2f53e3c..f90c144 100644
--- a/app/proc_info/main.c
+++ b/app/proc_info/main.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ proc_info_preparse_args(int argc, char **argv)
 				proc_info_usage(prgname);
 				return -1;
 			}
-			strncpy(host_id, argv[i+1], sizeof(host_id));
+			snprintf(host_id, sizeof(host_id), "%s", argv[i+1]);
 		}
 	}
 
-- 
2.7.5



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