[dpdk-stable] patch 'eal: fix mempool ops name parsing' has been queued to stable release 18.02.2

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 18.02.2

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 05/16/18. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From d5b8f05cc5caa97719729e5f3e90423d9f4c85e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivan Malov <ivan.malov at oktetlabs.ru>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 11:31:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] eal: fix mempool ops name parsing

[ upstream commit 33b318179162e4be81720d010fa6466fe03c2a84 ]

The code aimed to pick and remember the value of
mempool ops name from EAL command line arguments does not
copy the string and remembers the pointer provided
by getopt_long() directly. The latter could be clobbered
later and result in reading wrong mbuf pool ops name
by rte_mempool library.

Typically, this flaw could be avoided by using strdup()
to remember the string value of the option.

Fixes: a103a97e7191 ("eal: allow user to override default mempool driver")

Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <ivan.malov at oktetlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c   | 3 ++-
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
index b1b8f7600..216796e87 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -380,7 +380,8 @@ eal_parse_args(int argc, char **argv)
 
 		switch (opt) {
 		case OPT_MBUF_POOL_OPS_NAME_NUM:
-			internal_config.user_mbuf_pool_ops_name = optarg;
+			internal_config.user_mbuf_pool_ops_name =
+			    strdup(optarg);
 			break;
 		case 'h':
 			eal_usage(prgname);
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 38306bf5c..fd48471de 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -591,7 +591,8 @@ eal_parse_args(int argc, char **argv)
 			break;
 
 		case OPT_MBUF_POOL_OPS_NAME_NUM:
-			internal_config.user_mbuf_pool_ops_name = optarg;
+			internal_config.user_mbuf_pool_ops_name =
+			    strdup(optarg);
 			break;
 
 		default:
-- 
2.14.2