[PATCH v2] net/mlx5: fix build with clang 14

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Jun 15 10:16:57 CEST 2022


11/05/2022 18:41, Ali Alnubani:
> Use fgets instead of fscanf to resolve the following warning
> reported by clang 14.0.0 in Fedora 37 (Rawhide):
> 
> drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_ethdev_os.c:1137:52: error:
>   'fscanf' may overflow; destination buffer in argument 3 has size 16,
>   but the corresponding specifier may require size 17
>   [-Werror,-Wfortify-source]
>   ret = fscanf(file, "%" RTE_STR(IF_NAMESIZE) "s", port_name);

Some other patches are proposing to declare the variable
of size IF_NAMESIZE+1 but I think it's wrong because
IF_NAMESIZE includes a terminating null byte.

> Fixes: 63d1db710fbc ("net/mlx5: fix unlimited parsing of switch info")
> Cc: michaelba at mellanox.com
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>
[...]
> -		ret = fscanf(file, "%" RTE_STR(IF_NAMESIZE) "s", port_name);
> -		fclose(file);
> -		if (ret == 1)
> +		if (fgets(port_name, IF_NAMESIZE, file) != NULL)
>  			mlx5_translate_port_name(port_name, &data);
> +		fclose(file);

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>




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