[PATCH v3 14/16] ethdev: avoid possible overflow in xstat names

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Dec 5 21:11:43 CET 2025


The compiler doesn't know that all the elements in the table
of queue stats are short enough to avoid overflowing the snprintf.
Add a condition to warn if it ever does;
maybe some day a new long named queue stat could be added.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
index c6fe0d5165..05de3335e5 100644
--- a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
+++ b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
@@ -3489,9 +3489,10 @@ eth_basic_stats_get_names(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	uint16_t num_q;
 
 	for (idx = 0; idx < RTE_NB_STATS; idx++) {
-		strlcpy(xstats_names[cnt_used_entries].name,
-			eth_dev_stats_strings[idx].name,
-			sizeof(xstats_names[0].name));
+		if (strlcpy(xstats_names[cnt_used_entries].name, eth_dev_stats_strings[idx].name,
+			    sizeof(xstats_names[0].name)) >= sizeof(xstats_names[0].name))
+			RTE_ETHDEV_LOG_LINE(ERR, "statistic name '%s' will be truncated",
+					    xstats_names[cnt_used_entries].name);
 		cnt_used_entries++;
 	}
 
@@ -3501,10 +3502,17 @@ eth_basic_stats_get_names(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	num_q = RTE_MIN(dev->data->nb_rx_queues, RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS);
 	for (id_queue = 0; id_queue < num_q; id_queue++) {
 		for (idx = 0; idx < RTE_NB_RXQ_STATS; idx++) {
-			snprintf(xstats_names[cnt_used_entries].name,
-				sizeof(xstats_names[0].name),
-				"rx_q%u_%s",
-				id_queue, eth_dev_rxq_stats_strings[idx].name);
+			unsigned int cc;
+
+			cc = snprintf(xstats_names[cnt_used_entries].name,
+				      sizeof(xstats_names[0].name),
+				      "rx_q%u_%s",
+				      id_queue, eth_dev_rxq_stats_strings[idx].name);
+
+			/* could only happen if a long string was added */
+			if (cc >= sizeof(xstats_names[0].name))
+				RTE_ETHDEV_LOG_LINE(ERR, "truncated rxq stat string '%s'",
+						    eth_dev_rxq_stats_strings[idx].name);
 			cnt_used_entries++;
 		}
 
@@ -3512,10 +3520,15 @@ eth_basic_stats_get_names(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	num_q = RTE_MIN(dev->data->nb_tx_queues, RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS);
 	for (id_queue = 0; id_queue < num_q; id_queue++) {
 		for (idx = 0; idx < RTE_NB_TXQ_STATS; idx++) {
-			snprintf(xstats_names[cnt_used_entries].name,
-				sizeof(xstats_names[0].name),
-				"tx_q%u_%s",
-				id_queue, eth_dev_txq_stats_strings[idx].name);
+			unsigned int cc;
+
+			cc = snprintf(xstats_names[cnt_used_entries].name,
+				      sizeof(xstats_names[0].name),
+				      "tx_q%u_%s",
+				      id_queue, eth_dev_txq_stats_strings[idx].name);
+			if (cc >= sizeof(xstats_names[0].name))
+				RTE_ETHDEV_LOG_LINE(ERR, "truncated txq stat string '%s'",
+						    eth_dev_txq_stats_strings[idx].name);
 			cnt_used_entries++;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.51.0



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