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

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Tue May 10 20:27:13 CEST 2016


On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 06:11:18PM +0200, Daniel Mrzyglod wrote:
> 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>

Applied to dpdk-next-virtio.

Thanks.

	--yliu


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