[PATCH 5/6] cmdline: guard zero-size destination buffers

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu May 7 16:59:48 CEST 2026


Add missing zero-size destination checks in cmdline helper routines.
Always check for size == 0, before doing an assignment of '\0' to string
position of "size - 1".

Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 lib/cmdline/cmdline_parse_num.c    | 2 +-
 lib/cmdline/cmdline_parse_string.c | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/cmdline/cmdline_parse_num.c b/lib/cmdline/cmdline_parse_num.c
index f21796bedb..4cfc900391 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline/cmdline_parse_num.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline/cmdline_parse_num.c
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ cmdline_get_help_num(cmdline_parse_token_hdr_t *tk, char *dstbuf, unsigned int s
 	struct cmdline_token_num_data nd;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (!tk)
+	if (!tk || !dstbuf || size == 0)
 		return -1;
 
 	memcpy(&nd, &((struct cmdline_token_num *)tk)->num_data, sizeof(nd));
diff --git a/lib/cmdline/cmdline_parse_string.c b/lib/cmdline/cmdline_parse_string.c
index 731947159f..33cf89f84f 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline/cmdline_parse_string.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline/cmdline_parse_string.c
@@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ int cmdline_complete_get_elt_string(cmdline_parse_token_hdr_t *tk, int idx,
 	if (!tk || !dstbuf || idx < 0)
 		return -1;
 
+	if (size == 0)
+		return -1;
+
 	tk2 = (struct cmdline_token_string *)tk;
 	sd = &tk2->string_data;
 
-- 
2.51.0



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