[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/6] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search

[Allain Legacy]

The call to memchr() uses the absolute length of the string buffer instead
of the actual length of the string returned by fgets().  This causes the
search to go beyond the '\n' character and find ';' characters in random
garbage on the stack.  This then causes the 'len' variable to be updated
and the subsequent search for the '=' character to potentially find one
beyond the first newline character.

Since this bug relies on ';' and '=' characters appearing in random places
in the 'buffer' variable it is intermittently reproducible at best.

Signed-off-by: Allain Legacy <allain.legacy at windriver.com>
---
 lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c b/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
index 63e34bbb0..e4a3885b7 100644
--- a/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
+++ b/lib/librte_cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ rte_cfgfile_load_with_params(const char *filename, int flags,
 					"Check if line too long\n", lineno);
 			goto error1;
 		}
-		pos = memchr(buffer, params->comment_character, sizeof(buffer));
+		pos = memchr(buffer, params->comment_character, len);
 		if (pos != NULL) {
 			*pos = '\0';
 			len = pos -  buffer;
-- 
2.12.1