[PATCH] telemetry: reset data before passing it to callback

Robin Jarry rjarry at redhat.com
Tue Feb 7 19:45:20 CET 2023


If a telemetry endpoint callback returns 0 without modifying the data
object, output_json() may be called with undefined contents in data.
This can cause crashes and/or worse (double free, etc.).

Reset data before passing it to the endpoint callbacks.

Fixes: 6dd571fd07c3 ("telemetry: introduce new functionality")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Robin Jarry <rjarry at redhat.com>
---
 lib/telemetry/telemetry.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/telemetry/telemetry.c b/lib/telemetry/telemetry.c
index 655191bcf17f..6303429bb0c9 100644
--- a/lib/telemetry/telemetry.c
+++ b/lib/telemetry/telemetry.c
@@ -335,6 +335,8 @@ perform_command(telemetry_cb fn, const char *cmd, const char *param, int s)
 {
 	struct rte_tel_data data;
 
+	memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));
+
 	int ret = fn(cmd, param, &data);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		char out_buf[MAX_CMD_LEN + 10];
-- 
2.39.1



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