[PATCH 16/17] net/vhost: replace strncpy with strlcpy

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Jun 23 18:51:46 CEST 2026


Replace strncpy() with safer strlcpy() which always null-terminates.

Fixes: 2e16597c4bda ("net/vhost: move to vhost library statistics API")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
index 05940f2461..82e9fc929a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ vhost_dev_xstats_get_names(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
-		strncpy(xstats_names[i].name, name[i].name, RTE_ETH_XSTATS_NAME_SIZE);
+		strlcpy(xstats_names[i].name, name[i].name, RTE_ETH_XSTATS_NAME_SIZE);
 
 	free(name);
 
-- 
2.53.0



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