[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib/cryptodev: fix driver name comparison

Anoob Joseph anoobj at marvell.com
Mon Feb 4 12:26:08 CET 2019


The string compare to the length of driver name might give false
positives when there are drivers with similar names (one being the
subset of another).

Following is such a naming which could result in false positive.
1. crypto_driver
2. crypto_driver1

When strncmp with len = strlen("crypto_driver") is done, it could give
a false positive when compared against "crypto_driver1".

Fixes: d11b0f30df88 ("cryptodev: introduce API and framework for crypto devices")

Signed-off-by: Ankur Dwivedi <adwivedi at marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Anoob Joseph <anoobj at marvell.com>
---
 lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.c b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.c
index 7009735..b743c60 100644
--- a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.c
+++ b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.c
@@ -510,7 +510,8 @@ rte_cryptodev_pmd_get_named_dev(const char *name)
 		dev = &cryptodev_globals.devs[i];
 
 		if ((dev->attached == RTE_CRYPTODEV_ATTACHED) &&
-				(strcmp(dev->data->name, name) == 0))
+				(strncmp(dev->data->name, name,
+					 RTE_CRYPTODEV_NAME_MAX_LEN) == 0))
 			return dev;
 	}
 
@@ -542,8 +543,8 @@ rte_cryptodev_get_dev_id(const char *name)
 		return -1;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < cryptodev_globals.nb_devs; i++)
-		if ((strcmp(cryptodev_globals.devs[i].data->name, name)
-				== 0) &&
+		if ((strncmp(cryptodev_globals.devs[i].data->name, name,
+				RTE_CRYPTODEV_NAME_MAX_LEN) == 0) &&
 				(cryptodev_globals.devs[i].attached ==
 						RTE_CRYPTODEV_ATTACHED))
 			return i;
@@ -586,7 +587,7 @@ rte_cryptodev_devices_get(const char *driver_name, uint8_t *devices,
 
 			cmp = strncmp(devs[i].device->driver->name,
 					driver_name,
-					strlen(driver_name));
+					RTE_CRYPTODEV_NAME_MAX_LEN);
 
 			if (cmp == 0)
 				devices[count++] = devs[i].data->dev_id;
@@ -1691,7 +1692,7 @@ rte_cryptodev_driver_id_get(const char *name)
 
 	TAILQ_FOREACH(driver, &cryptodev_driver_list, next) {
 		driver_name = driver->driver->name;
-		if (strncmp(driver_name, name, strlen(driver_name)) == 0)
+		if (strncmp(driver_name, name, RTE_CRYPTODEV_NAME_MAX_LEN) == 0)
 			return driver->id;
 	}
 	return -1;
-- 
2.7.4



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