[PATCH v3] cmdline: prevent out-of-bounds read in completion buffer
Daniil Iskhakov
dish at amicon.ru
Thu Apr 30 19:01:11 CEST 2026
tmp_buf is populated by the completion callback and is not guaranteed
to be NUL-terminated.
The code already accounts for this when computing tmp_size with
strnlen(tmp_buf, sizeof(tmp_buf)). However, another loop in the same
path still walks tmp_buf until a NUL byte is found, without checking
the buffer limit.
If the callback writes a full-sized non-NUL-terminated string, the loop
may read past the end of tmp_buf.
Fix this by computing a bounded length for each completion choice before
printing it.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Daniil Iskhakov <dish at amicon.ru>
---
v3:
- Reworked the choice-printing loop to use a bounded length.
- Fixed coding style issues in the diff.
- Rebased and regenerated the patch; v2 did not apply cleanly.
v2:
- Resent to dev at dpdk.org because v1 was accidentally sent only to
maintainers.
Cc: sdl.dpdk at linuxtesting.org
Cc: rrv at amicon.ru
---
lib/cmdline/cmdline_rdline.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/cmdline/cmdline_rdline.c b/lib/cmdline/cmdline_rdline.c
index 0a5a399b32..e1770f0a1d 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline/cmdline_rdline.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline/cmdline_rdline.c
@@ -444,8 +444,9 @@ rdline_char_in(struct rdline *rdl, char c)
/* choice */
rdline_puts(rdl, "\r\n");
while (ret) {
+ tmp_size = strnlen(tmp_buf, sizeof(tmp_buf));
rdl->write_char(rdl, ' ');
- for (i=0 ; tmp_buf[i] ; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < tmp_size; i++)
rdl->write_char(rdl, tmp_buf[i]);
rdline_puts(rdl, "\r\n");
ret = rdl->complete(rdl, rdl->left_buf,
--
2.43.0
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