From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] cfgfile: add null checks to public APIs
Date: Thu, 7 May 2026 15:59:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260507145950.197753-2-bruce.richardson@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260507145950.197753-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>
For safety, add NULL checks to each of the public APIs to avoid crashes
in the library. Even though NULL values are likely symptoms of a wider
problem, this is not a datapath library so there is no harm in taking a
few cycles for additional parameter checking.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
---
lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c b/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
index c495bdf6ae..25fc792274 100644
--- a/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
+++ b/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
@@ -198,6 +198,10 @@ rte_cfgfile_load_with_params(const char *filename, int flags,
return NULL;
cfg = rte_cfgfile_create(flags);
+ if (cfg == NULL) {
+ fclose(f);
+ return NULL;
+ }
while (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), f) != NULL) {
char *pos;
@@ -506,6 +510,9 @@ rte_cfgfile_num_sections(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, const char *sectionname,
int num_sections = 0;
int i;
+ if (cfg == NULL)
+ return -1;
+
if (sectionname == NULL)
return cfg->num_sections;
@@ -523,8 +530,14 @@ rte_cfgfile_sections(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, char *sections[],
{
int i;
- for (i = 0; i < cfg->num_sections && i < max_sections; i++)
+ if (cfg == NULL || sections == NULL || max_sections < 0)
+ return -1;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < cfg->num_sections && i < max_sections; i++) {
+ if (sections[i] == NULL)
+ return -1;
strlcpy(sections[i], cfg->sections[i].name, CFG_NAME_LEN);
+ }
return i;
}
@@ -533,6 +546,9 @@ RTE_EXPORT_SYMBOL(rte_cfgfile_has_section)
int
rte_cfgfile_has_section(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, const char *sectionname)
{
+ if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL)
+ return 0;
+
return _get_section(cfg, sectionname) != NULL;
}
@@ -541,6 +557,9 @@ int
rte_cfgfile_section_num_entries(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg,
const char *sectionname)
{
+ if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL)
+ return -1;
+
const struct rte_cfgfile_section *s = _get_section(cfg, sectionname);
if (s == NULL)
return -1;
@@ -552,6 +571,9 @@ int
rte_cfgfile_section_num_entries_by_index(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg,
char *sectionname, int index)
{
+ if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL)
+ return -1;
+
if (index < 0 || index >= cfg->num_sections)
return -1;
@@ -566,6 +588,10 @@ rte_cfgfile_section_entries(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, const char *sectionname,
struct rte_cfgfile_entry *entries, int max_entries)
{
int i;
+
+ if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL || entries == NULL)
+ return -1;
+
const struct rte_cfgfile_section *sect = _get_section(cfg, sectionname);
if (sect == NULL)
return -1;
@@ -583,6 +609,9 @@ rte_cfgfile_section_entries_by_index(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, int index,
int i;
const struct rte_cfgfile_section *sect;
+ if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL || entries == NULL)
+ return -1;
+
if (index < 0 || index >= cfg->num_sections)
return -1;
sect = &cfg->sections[index];
@@ -598,6 +627,10 @@ rte_cfgfile_get_entry(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, const char *sectionname,
const char *entryname)
{
int i;
+
+ if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL || entryname == NULL)
+ return NULL;
+
const struct rte_cfgfile_section *sect = _get_section(cfg, sectionname);
if (sect == NULL)
return NULL;
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-07 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-07 14:59 [PATCH 0/6] add hardening checks to cmdline and cfgfile libs Bruce Richardson
2026-05-07 14:59 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2026-05-07 14:59 ` [PATCH 2/6] cfgfile: prevent issues with overflow on resize Bruce Richardson
2026-05-07 14:59 ` [PATCH 3/6] cmdline: harden parser result buffer handling Bruce Richardson
2026-05-07 14:59 ` [PATCH 4/6] cmdline: add explicit help function for bool type Bruce Richardson
2026-05-07 14:59 ` [PATCH 5/6] cmdline: guard zero-size destination buffers Bruce Richardson
2026-05-07 14:59 ` [PATCH 6/6] cmdline: add null checks for invalid input Bruce Richardson
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