[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] pmdinfogen: allow padding after NUL terminator

[Dmitry Kozlyuk]

Size of string constant symbol may be larger than its length
measured up to NUL terminator. In this case pmdinfogen included padding
bytes after NUL terminator in generated source, yielding incorrect code.

Always trim string data to NUL terminator while reading ELF.
It was already done for COFF because there's no symbol size.

Bugzilla ID: 720
Fixes: f0f93a7adfee ("buildtools: use Python pmdinfogen")

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
---
v2: return helper to coff.py, where it's needed (David Marchand).

 buildtools/pmdinfogen.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py b/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
index 7a739ec7d4..2a44f17bda 100755
--- a/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
+++ b/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def __init__(self, image, symbol):
     def string_value(self):
         size = self._symbol["st_size"]
         value = self.get_value(0, size)
-        return value[:-1].decode() if value else ""
+        return coff.decode_asciiz(value)  # not COFF-specific
 
     def get_value(self, offset, size):
         section = self._symbol["st_shndx"]
-- 
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