[PATCH] eal: check for invalid memory parameters
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Thu Jun 4 18:12:24 CEST 2026
The code to parse arguments like memory size, channels and rank
was using atoi() which has no check for garbage after the number.
Switch to using a helper that uses strtoull().
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c
index 1049838d73..49151c0a16 100644
--- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c
+++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c
@@ -2062,6 +2062,29 @@ eal_parse_huge_worker_stack(const char *arg)
return 0;
}
+static int
+eal_parse_num(const char *str, unsigned int *val)
+{
+ char *endptr;
+ unsigned long long n;
+
+ while (isspace((unsigned char)*str))
+ str++;
+
+ if (*str == '-')
+ return -1;
+
+ errno = 0;
+ n = strtoull(str, &endptr, 10);
+
+ /* Error if string is empty or has trailing characters */
+ if (*str == '\0' || *endptr != '\0' || errno != 0 || n > UINT_MAX)
+ return -1;
+
+ *val = n;
+ return 0;
+}
+
/* Parse the arguments given in the command line of the application */
int
eal_parse_args(void)
@@ -2205,23 +2228,34 @@ eal_parse_args(void)
/* memory options */
if (args.memory_size != NULL) {
- int_cfg->memory = atoi(args.memory_size);
+ unsigned int mb;
+ if (eal_parse_num(args.memory_size, &mb) < 0) {
+ EAL_LOG(ERR, "invalid memory size parameter");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ int_cfg->memory = mb;
int_cfg->memory *= 1024ULL;
int_cfg->memory *= 1024ULL;
}
if (args.memory_channels != NULL) {
- int_cfg->force_nchannel = atoi(args.memory_channels);
- if (int_cfg->force_nchannel == 0) {
+ unsigned int n;
+ if (eal_parse_num(args.memory_channels, &n) < 0 ||
+ n == 0 || n > 32) {
EAL_LOG(ERR, "invalid memory channel parameter");
return -1;
}
+ int_cfg->force_nchannel = n;
}
if (args.memory_ranks != NULL) {
- int_cfg->force_nrank = atoi(args.memory_ranks);
- if (int_cfg->force_nrank == 0 || int_cfg->force_nrank > 16) {
+ unsigned int n;
+
+ if (eal_parse_num(args.memory_ranks, &n) < 0 ||
+ n == 0 || n > 16) {
EAL_LOG(ERR, "invalid memory rank parameter");
return -1;
}
+ int_cfg->force_nrank = n;
}
if (args.no_huge) {
int_cfg->no_hugetlbfs = 1;
--
2.53.0
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