[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] examples/vhost: fix string split error handling issue

[Jiang, Cheng1]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:35 PM
> To: Jiang, Cheng1 <cheng1.jiang at intel.com>; Xia, Chenbo
> <chenbo.xia at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Fu, Patrick <patrick.fu at intel.com>; Yang, YvonneX
> <yvonnex.yang at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] examples/vhost: fix string split error handling issue
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/6/20 4:23 AM, Cheng Jiang wrote:
> > Add checking return value of string split function to fix the coverity
> > issue.
> >
> > Fixes: 3a04ecb21420 ("examples/vhost: add async vhost args parsing")
> > Coverity issue: 363739
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cheng Jiang <Cheng1.jiang at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  examples/vhost/ioat.c | 11 ++++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/examples/vhost/ioat.c b/examples/vhost/ioat.c index
> > b2c74f6537..04806c02d7 100644
> > --- a/examples/vhost/ioat.c
> > +++ b/examples/vhost/ioat.c
> > @@ -54,9 +54,14 @@ open_ioat(const char *value)
> >  	}
> >  	args_nr = rte_strsplit(substr, strlen(substr),
> >  			dma_arg, MAX_VHOST_DEVICE, ',');
> 
> I think you should check args_nr > 0 explicitly, and maybe even args_nr
> >= 0. And then propagate the error if condition is met.
> 

Sure, I'll fix it in the next version.

Thanks,
Cheng

> 
> > -	do {
> > +	while (i < args_nr) {
> >  		char *arg_temp = dma_arg[i];
> > -		rte_strsplit(arg_temp, strlen(arg_temp), ptrs, 2, '@');
> > +		uint8_t sub_nr;
> > +		sub_nr = rte_strsplit(arg_temp, strlen(arg_temp), ptrs, 2,
> '@');
> > +		if (sub_nr != 2) {
> > +			ret = -1;
> > +			goto out;
> > +		}
> >
> >  		start = strstr(ptrs[0], "txd");
> >  		if (start == NULL) {
> > @@ -105,7 +110,7 @@ open_ioat(const char *value)
> >
> >  		dma_info->nr++;
> >  		i++;
> > -	} while (i < args_nr);
> > +	}
> >  out:
> >  	free(input);
> >  	return ret;
> >