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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] metrics: fix missing NULL termination
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 19:13:07 +0300
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18/07/2017 12:43, Remy Horton:
> The public API (struct rte_metric_name) includes the NULL terminator
> byte in RTE_METRICS_MAX_NAME_LENGTH but the library itself internally
> excludes it. This makes it possible for an application to receive an
> unterminated name string. Fix be enforcing the NULL termination of all
> name strings to the length that the public API expects.
> 
> Fixes: 349950ddb9c5 ("metrics: add information metrics library")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>

Applied, thanks