[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] metrics: fix potential missing NULL termination
Ferruh Yigit
ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Mar 22 11:33:08 CET 2018
On 2/20/2018 4:05 PM, Remy Horton wrote:
> Fixes a potential memory overrun detected by Coverity.
> This overrun cannot currently happen in practice because
> rte_metrics_reg_names() explicitly forces the last name
> character to be a NULL terminator. This patch adds the
> same enforcement to rte_metrics_get_names() in order to
> correct the warning, as well as using snprintf instead
> of strncpy to copy name strings.
There is a patch from Bruce to convert snprintf to strlcpy [1], this patch can
be part of that one.
[1]
https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/35976/
>
> Coverity issue: 143434
> Fixes: 349950ddb9c5 ("metrics: add information metrics library")
> Fixes: 710cab6f675a ("metrics: fix out of bound access")
>
> Signed-off-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton at intel.com>
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