[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] app/pdump: fix string overflow

Reshma Pattan reshma.pattan at intel.com
Wed Jun 22 16:07:55 CEST 2016


replaced strncpy with snprintf for safely
copying the strings.

Coverity issue 127351: string overflow

Fixes: caa7028276b8 ("app/pdump: add tool for packet capturing")

Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
---
 app/pdump/main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/pdump/main.c b/app/pdump/main.c
index f8923b9..fe4d38a 100644
--- a/app/pdump/main.c
+++ b/app/pdump/main.c
@@ -217,12 +217,12 @@ parse_rxtxdev(const char *key, const char *value, void *extra_args)
 	struct pdump_tuples *pt = extra_args;
 
 	if (!strcmp(key, PDUMP_RX_DEV_ARG)) {
-		strncpy(pt->rx_dev, value, strlen(value));
+		snprintf(pt->rx_dev, sizeof(pt->rx_dev), "%s", value);
 		/* identify the tx stream type for pcap vdev */
 		if (if_nametoindex(pt->rx_dev))
 			pt->rx_vdev_stream_type = IFACE;
 	} else if (!strcmp(key, PDUMP_TX_DEV_ARG)) {
-		strncpy(pt->tx_dev, value, strlen(value));
+		snprintf(pt->tx_dev, sizeof(pt->tx_dev), "%s", value);
 		/* identify the tx stream type for pcap vdev */
 		if (if_nametoindex(pt->tx_dev))
 			pt->tx_vdev_stream_type = IFACE;
-- 
2.5.0



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