[PATCH v4 1/1] event/octeontx: fix possible integer overflow

[Jerin Jacob]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 4:28 PM Hanumanth Pothula <hpothula at marvell.com> wrote:
>
> The last argument passed to ssovf_parsekv() is an
> unsigned char*, but it is accessed as an integer.
> This can lead to an integer overflow.
>
> Hence, make ensure the argument is accessed as a char
> and for better error handling use strtol instead of atoi.
>
> Bugzilla ID: 1512
> Fixes: 3516327e00fd ("event/octeontx: add selftest to device arguments")
>
> Signed-off-by: Hanumanth Pothula <hpothula at marvell.com>

Missed following tag
Tested-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-mrvl/for-main. Thanks


> ---
>
> v2: Use strtoul instead of strtol
> v3: Add value boundry check. Here, value can be either 0 or 1.
> v4: Commit text update
> ---
>  drivers/event/octeontx/ssovf_evdev.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/event/octeontx/ssovf_evdev.c b/drivers/event/octeontx/ssovf_evdev.c
> index 3a933b1db7..957fcab04e 100644
> --- a/drivers/event/octeontx/ssovf_evdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/event/octeontx/ssovf_evdev.c
> @@ -717,10 +717,20 @@ ssovf_close(struct rte_eventdev *dev)
>  }
>
>  static int
> -ssovf_parsekv(const char *key __rte_unused, const char *value, void *opaque)
> +ssovf_parsekv(const char *key, const char *value, void *opaque)
>  {
> -       int *flag = opaque;
> -       *flag = !!atoi(value);
> +       uint8_t *flag = opaque;
> +       uint64_t v;
> +       char *end;
> +
> +       errno = 0;
> +       v = strtoul(value, &end, 0);
> +       if ((errno != 0) || (value == end) || *end != '\0' || v > 1) {
> +               ssovf_log_err("invalid %s value %s", key, value);
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +       }
> +
> +       *flag = !!v;
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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