[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ether: fix invalid string length in ethdev name comparison

Mohammad Abdul Awal mohammad.abdul.awal at intel.com
Tue Feb 27 09:58:27 CET 2018


The current code compares two strings upto the length of 1st string
(searched name). If the 1st string is prefix of 2nd string (existing name),
the string comparison returns the port_id of earliest prefix matches.
This patch fixes the bug by using strcmp instead of strncmp.

Fixes: 9c5b8d8b9fe ("ethdev: clean port id retrieval when attaching")

Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
index 0590f0c..3b885a6 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
+++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
@@ -572,8 +572,7 @@ rte_eth_dev_get_port_by_name(const char *name, uint16_t *port_id)
 
 	for (pid = 0; pid < RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS; pid++) {
 		if (rte_eth_devices[pid].state != RTE_ETH_DEV_UNUSED &&
-		    !strncmp(name, rte_eth_dev_shared_data->data[pid].name,
-			     strlen(name))) {
+		    !strcmp(name, rte_eth_dev_shared_data->data[pid].name)) {
 			*port_id = pid;
 			return 0;
 		}
-- 
2.7.4



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