[PATCH v3 13/16] eal: handle long shared library path

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Dec 5 21:11:42 CET 2025


Instead of a fixed size shared library path that could in theory
get truncated when concatenating, use a dynamically allocated buffer
via asprintf.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c
index b1fb670ea0..6aa078e135 100644
--- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c
+++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c
@@ -570,7 +570,6 @@ static int
 eal_plugindir_init(const char *path)
 {
 	struct dirent *dent = NULL;
-	char sopath[PATH_MAX];
 	DIR *d = NULL;
 
 	if (path == NULL || *path == '\0')
@@ -584,19 +583,29 @@ eal_plugindir_init(const char *path)
 	}
 
 	while ((dent = readdir(d)) != NULL) {
+		char *sopath = NULL;
 		struct stat sb;
 
 		if (!ends_with(dent->d_name, ".so") && !ends_with(dent->d_name, ".so."ABI_VERSION))
 			continue;
 
-		snprintf(sopath, sizeof(sopath), "%s/%s", path, dent->d_name);
+		if (asprintf(&sopath, "%s/%s", path, dent->d_name) < 0) {
+			EAL_LOG(ERR, "failed to create full path %s/%s",
+				path, dent->d_name);
+			continue;
+		}
 
 		/* if a regular file, add to list to load */
-		if (!(stat(sopath, &sb) == 0 && S_ISREG(sb.st_mode)))
+		if (!(stat(sopath, &sb) == 0 && S_ISREG(sb.st_mode))) {
+			free(sopath);
 			continue;
+		}
 
-		if (eal_plugin_add(sopath) == -1)
+		if (eal_plugin_add(sopath) == -1) {
+			free(sopath);
 			break;
+		}
+		free(sopath);
 	}
 
 	closedir(d);
-- 
2.51.0



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