From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Liu, Changpeng" <changpeng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] examples/vhost_scsi: fix potential buffer overrun with safe copy API
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 20:18:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9373529.Cr5sn6mvdD@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FF7FC980937D6342B9D289F5F3C7C2625B65CCE8@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com>
22/05/2018 19:58, Liu, Changpeng:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net]
> > 18/05/2018 01:32, Changpeng Liu:
> > > - strlcpy((char *)vpage->params, bdev->name,
> > > - sizeof(vpage->params));
> > > + vhost_strcpy_pad((char *)vpage->params, bdev->name,
> > > + sizeof(vpage->params), ' ');
> >
> > Why do you think vhost_strcpy_pad is safer than strlcpy?
>
> A code Coverity issue 279452 reported for strlcpy, so here replace with internal API can avoid it.
I think it is a false positive.
Remember that Coverity is just a tool.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-22 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-17 23:32 [PATCH 1/2] examples/vhost_scsi: add virtio-1.0 feature bit support Changpeng Liu
2018-05-17 23:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] examples/vhost_scsi: fix potential buffer overrun with safe copy API Changpeng Liu
2018-05-22 17:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-05-22 17:58 ` Liu, Changpeng
2018-05-22 18:18 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-05-18 12:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] examples/vhost_scsi: add virtio-1.0 feature bit support Maxime Coquelin
2018-05-22 17:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-05-22 20:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-05-22 20:45 ` Liu, Changpeng
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