[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: fix buffer not null terminated

Daniel Mrzyglod danielx.t.mrzyglod at intel.com
Tue May 10 18:11:18 CEST 2016


Fix issue reported by Coverity.
Coverity ID 124556

If the buffer is treated as a null terminated string in later operations,
a buffer overflow or over-read may occur.

In vhost_set_ifname: The string buffer may not have a null terminator if
the source string's length is equal to the buffer size

Fixes: 54292e9520e0 ("vhost: support ifname for vhost-user")

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mrzyglod <danielx.t.mrzyglod at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c
index d870ad9..f4695af 100644
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c
@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ vhost_set_ifname(struct vhost_device_ctx ctx,
 		sizeof(dev->ifname) : if_len;
 
 	strncpy(dev->ifname, if_name, len);
+	dev->ifname[sizeof(dev->ifname) - 1] = '\0';
 }
 
 
-- 
2.5.5



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