[EXT] [PATCH v3 10/22] eal: replace strtok with reentrant version

Amit Prakash Shukla amitprakashs at marvell.com
Wed Nov 15 08:17:30 CET 2023


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jie Hai <haijie1 at huawei.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 4:30 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org; Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>; Amit
> Prakash Shukla <amitprakashs at marvell.com>
> Cc: haijie1 at huawei.com; lihuisong at huawei.com;
> fengchengwen at huawei.com
> Subject: [EXT] [PATCH v3 10/22] eal: replace strtok with reentrant version
> 
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> Multiple threads calling the same function may cause condition race issues,
> which often leads to abnormal behavior and can cause more serious
> vulnerabilities such as abnormal termination, denial of service, and
> compromised data integrity.
> 
> The strtok() is non-reentrant, it is better to replace it with a reentrant
> version.
> 
> Fixes: 2054f31a1fcd ("mem: add memseg info in telemetry")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jie Hai <haijie1 at huawei.com>
> Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen at huawei.com>
> ---
>  lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c
> b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c
> index d9433db62345..a05eb0442b0b 100644
> --- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c
> +++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c
> @@ -1273,22 +1273,22 @@ parse_params(const char *params, uint32_t
> *vals, size_t n_vals)
>  	char dlim[2] = ",";
>  	char *params_args;
>  	size_t count = 0;
> -	char *token;
> +	char *token, *sp = NULL;
> 
>  	if (vals == NULL || params == NULL || strlen(params) == 0)
>  		return -1;
> 
> -	/* strtok expects char * and param is const char *. Hence on using
> +	/* strtok_r expects char * and param is const char *. Hence on using
>  	 * params as "const char *" compiler throws warning.
>  	 */
>  	params_args = strdup(params);
>  	if (params_args == NULL)
>  		return -1;
> 
> -	token = strtok(params_args, dlim);
> +	token = strtok_r(params_args, dlim, &sp);
>  	while (token && isdigit(*token) && count < n_vals) {
>  		vals[count++] = strtoul(token, NULL, 10);
> -		token = strtok(NULL, dlim);
> +		token = strtok_r(NULL, dlim, &sp);
>  	}
> 
>  	free(params_args);
> --
> 2.30.0

Acked-by: Amit Prakash Shukla <amitprakashs at marvell.com>


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