[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ether: fix invalid string length in ethdev name comparison
Ananyev, Konstantin
konstantin.ananyev at intel.com
Tue Feb 27 10:38:48 CET 2018
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Awal, Mohammad Abdul
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 8:58 AM
> To: thomas at monjalon.net
> Cc: rkerur at gmail.com; dev at dpdk.org; Ananyev, Konstantin <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>; Awal, Mohammad Abdul
> <mohammad.abdul.awal at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v2] ether: fix invalid string length in ethdev name comparison
>
> The current code compares two strings upto the length of 1st string
> (searched name). If the 1st string is prefix of 2nd string (existing name),
> the string comparison returns the port_id of earliest prefix matches.
> This patch fixes the bug by using strcmp instead of strncmp.
>
> Fixes: 9c5b8d8b9fe ("ethdev: clean port id retrieval when attaching")
>
> Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal at intel.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
> index 0590f0c..3b885a6 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
> @@ -572,8 +572,7 @@ rte_eth_dev_get_port_by_name(const char *name, uint16_t *port_id)
>
> for (pid = 0; pid < RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS; pid++) {
> if (rte_eth_devices[pid].state != RTE_ETH_DEV_UNUSED &&
> - !strncmp(name, rte_eth_dev_shared_data->data[pid].name,
> - strlen(name))) {
> + !strcmp(name, rte_eth_dev_shared_data->data[pid].name)) {
> *port_id = pid;
> return 0;
> }
> --
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
> 2.7.4
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