[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/ip_pipeline: fix buffer not null terminated

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 02:28:25PM +0000, Dumitrescu, Cristian wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Zhang, Roy Fan
> > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 12:03 PM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Dumitrescu, Cristian <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>; Singh, Jasvinder
> > <jasvinder.singh at intel.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] examples/ip_pipeline: fix buffer not null terminated
> > 
> > Coverity issue: 272572
> > Fixes: 719374345cee ("examples/ip_pipeline: add action profile objects")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  examples/ip_pipeline/action.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/examples/ip_pipeline/action.c b/examples/ip_pipeline/action.c
> > index 77a04fe19..91011ebe8 100644
> > --- a/examples/ip_pipeline/action.c
> > +++ b/examples/ip_pipeline/action.c
> > @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ port_in_action_profile_create(const char *name,
> >  	}
> > 
> >  	/* Node fill in */
> > -	strncpy(profile->name, name, sizeof(profile->name));
> > +	strncpy(profile->name, name, sizeof(profile->name) - 1);
> >  	memcpy(&profile->params, params, sizeof(*params));
> >  	profile->ap = ap;
> > 
> > --
> > 2.13.6
> 
> Acked-by: Cristian.Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>
> 
> Applied to next-pipeline tree, thanks!

This is not a correct fix, and the code is still broken. However, I see
that you have actually applied the correct v2 patch to the tree, so no big
deal. It's probably best to reply to the correct patch confirming it's
applied, though.

/Bruce