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[v2] ethdev: check for invalid device name

Message ID 20190314161730.20016-1-stephen@networkplumber.org (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
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Series [v2] ethdev: check for invalid device name |

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ci/mellanox-Performance-Testing success Performance Testing PASS
ci/Intel-compilation success Compilation OK

Commit Message

Stephen Hemminger March 14, 2019, 4:17 p.m. UTC 
  Do not allow creating a ethernet device with a name over the
allowed maximum (or zero length). This is safer than silently truncating
which is what happens now.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
---
v2 - fix zero length name test

 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
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Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
index 85c1794968dd..b19df3061d54 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
+++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
@@ -438,6 +438,18 @@  rte_eth_dev_allocate(const char *name)
 {
 	uint16_t port_id;
 	struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev = NULL;
+	size_t name_len;
+	
+	name_len = strnlen(name, RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN);
+	if (name_len == 0) {
+		RTE_ETHDEV_LOG(ERR, "Zero length Ethernet device name\n");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (name_len >= RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN) {
+		RTE_ETHDEV_LOG(ERR, "Ethernet device name is too long\n");
+		return NULL;
+	}
 
 	rte_eth_dev_shared_data_prepare();