[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] Coverity fixes for DPDK IPC

Tan, Jianfeng jianfeng.tan at intel.com
Fri Apr 20 16:40:26 CEST 2018



On 4/17/2018 11:46 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> This patchset fixes a few Coverity issues introduced
> when various parts of DPDK IPC were added, and explains
> away other reported issues.
>
> Coverity issues fixed:
> - 272595 - return without mutex unlock
> - 272609 - fd leak
>
> Coverity issues intentionally not fixed:
> - 260407 - strcpy into fixed size buffer
>    - Both src and dst strings are fixed size, so this is false
>      positive
>    - Hopefully will be silenced by replacing strcpy with strlcpy
> - 272565 - strcpy into fixed size buffer
>    - Same as above
> - 272582 - strcpy into fixed size buffer
>    - Same as above
> - 268321 - tainted string
>    - Not an issue, we handle errors correctly
> - 272593 - tainted string
>    - Same as above
> - 272604 - tainted string
>    - Same as above
> - 260410 - not checking return value of rte_thread_setname
>    - We intentionally don't care if it fails
> - 272583 - return without mutex unlock
>    - Independently discovered and fixed [1]
>
> [1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/38042/
>
> Anatoly Burakov (3):
>    ipc: use strlcpy where applicable
>    ipc: fix return without mutex unlock
>    ipc: fix resource leak
>
>   lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>

For this series,

Acked-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>

Thanks for fixing these issues.


More information about the dev mailing list