[RFC v2 07/14] eal: avoid format overflow when handling addresses

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Dec 5 03:28:16 CET 2025


The largest possible string in this code 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
which will overflow with only 15 character buffer.
Increase to 20.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c
index c62edf5e55..2633857db5 100644
--- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c
+++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ rte_eal_memory_init(void)
 #define EAL_MEMSEG_INFO_REQ		"/eal/memseg_info"
 #define EAL_ELEMENT_LIST_REQ		"/eal/mem_element_list"
 #define EAL_ELEMENT_INFO_REQ		"/eal/mem_element_info"
-#define ADDR_STR			15
+#define ADDR_STR			20	/* 16 bytes 64 bit + 0x */
 
 
 /* Telemetry callback handler to return heap stats for requested heap id. */
-- 
2.51.0



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