[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mem: memory leaks of hubedir caused by strdup

zhouyangchao zhouyates at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 13:16:24 CEST 2018


As Burakov said, for no other reason, I just followed the old version.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 6:31 PM Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
wrote:

> On 17-Apr-18 11:24 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 17/04/2018 12:06, Yangchao Zhou:
> >> Coverity issue: 272585
> >> Fixes: cb97d93e9d3b ("mem: share hugepage info primary and secondary")
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Yangchao Zhou <zhouyates at gmail.com>
> >> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> >
> > Better to provide a small explanation.
> >
> >> -                                    retval = strdup(splitstr[MOUNTPT]);
> >> +                                    snprintf(hugedir, len, "%s",
> splitstr[MOUNTPT]);
> >
> > I think it is candidate to be replaced by strlcpy.
> > Please check
> >
>
> Yes, it seems that strlcpy thingie was merged without much fanfare. I'll
> be submitting a patch fixing various usages of snprintf in my recent
> commits. I'm inclined to leave this as is for this commit, as it's not
> the purpose of this fix.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Anatoly
>


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