patch 'net/octeontx: fix overflow in device name formatting' has been queued to stable release 25.11.3
Kevin Traynor
ktraynor at redhat.com
Thu Jul 23 19:15:52 CEST 2026
Hi,
FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 25.11.3
Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 07/27/26. So please
shout if anyone has objections.
Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
(ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
correctly done.
Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
https://github.com/kevintraynor/dpdk-stable
This queued commit can be viewed at:
https://github.com/kevintraynor/dpdk-stable/commit/36176d798355d194fab48d1500681a86ab03e8b8
Thanks.
Kevin
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>From 36176d798355d194fab48d1500681a86ab03e8b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergei Iashin <yashin.sergey at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 10:57:32 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] net/octeontx: fix overflow in device name formatting
[ upstream commit b775e102c81df7a064d8a63f7ed316e0c59c2e21 ]
Replace sprintf with snprintf when formatting into the fixed-size
octtx_name buffer in octeontx_create and octeontx_remove. The device
name can be up to 63 bytes (RTE_DEV_NAME_MAX_LEN) while the buffer
is only 32 bytes (OCTEONTX_MAX_NAME_LEN), which may cause a stack
buffer overflow with a long user-provided --vdev name.
Fixes: f18b146c498d ("net/octeontx: create ethdev ports")
Signed-off-by: Sergei Iashin <yashin.sergey at gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/octeontx/octeontx_ethdev.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/octeontx/octeontx_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/octeontx/octeontx_ethdev.c
index 21e3e56901..e4dca30d9d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/octeontx/octeontx_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/octeontx/octeontx_ethdev.c
@@ -1556,5 +1556,5 @@ octeontx_create(struct rte_vdev_device *dev, int port, uint8_t evdev,
PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE();
- sprintf(octtx_name, "%s_%d", name, port);
+ snprintf(octtx_name, sizeof(octtx_name), "%s_%d", name, port);
if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY) {
eth_dev = rte_eth_dev_attach_secondary(octtx_name);
@@ -1712,5 +1712,5 @@ octeontx_remove(struct rte_vdev_device *dev)
for (i = 0; i < OCTEONTX_VDEV_DEFAULT_MAX_NR_PORT; i++) {
- sprintf(octtx_name, "eth_octeontx_%d", i);
+ snprintf(octtx_name, sizeof(octtx_name), "eth_octeontx_%d", i);
eth_dev = rte_eth_dev_allocated(octtx_name);
--
2.55.0
---
Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
---
--- - 2026-07-23 17:58:01.206046357 +0100
+++ 0089-net-octeontx-fix-overflow-in-device-name-formatting.patch 2026-07-23 17:57:58.714377461 +0100
@@ -1 +1 @@
-From b775e102c81df7a064d8a63f7ed316e0c59c2e21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 36176d798355d194fab48d1500681a86ab03e8b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
@@ -5,0 +6,2 @@
+[ upstream commit b775e102c81df7a064d8a63f7ed316e0c59c2e21 ]
+
@@ -13 +14,0 @@
-Cc: stable at dpdk.org
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