[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/5] pdump: fix string overflow

Reshma Pattan reshma.pattan at intel.com
Fri Jun 24 15:54:31 CEST 2016


replaced strncpy with snprintf for safely
copying the strings.

Cverity issue 127350: string overflow

Fixes: 278f945402c5 ("pdump: add new library for packet capture")

Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c b/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c
index 8240387..53a5bf2 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c
+++ b/lib/librte_pdump/rte_pdump.c
@@ -804,13 +804,15 @@ pdump_prepare_client_request(char *device, uint16_t queue,
 	req.flags = flags;
 	req.op =  operation;
 	if ((operation & ENABLE) != 0) {
-		strncpy(req.data.en_v1.device, device, strlen(device));
+		snprintf(req.data.en_v1.device, sizeof(req.data.en_v1.device),
+				"%s", device);
 		req.data.en_v1.queue = queue;
 		req.data.en_v1.ring = ring;
 		req.data.en_v1.mp = mp;
 		req.data.en_v1.filter = filter;
 	} else {
-		strncpy(req.data.dis_v1.device, device, strlen(device));
+		snprintf(req.data.dis_v1.device, sizeof(req.data.dis_v1.device),
+				"%s", device);
 		req.data.dis_v1.queue = queue;
 		req.data.dis_v1.ring = NULL;
 		req.data.dis_v1.mp = NULL;
-- 
2.5.0



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