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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	stable@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
	Harman Kalra <hkalra@marvell.com>,
	Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ethdev: remove use of strncpy
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:19:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260623141930.704771-2-bruce.richardson@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260623141930.704771-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>

The use of strncpy is not generally recommended, so replace it in code
tokenizing the representor list. Since its use in the function is not
involving null-terminated strings (we know that copied block will
not involve a null value in it), we can replace strncpy with memcpy
rather than a string function. This keeps the original intent of the
code.

For extra safety, also add in an explicit bounds check on the length
value before doing the memcpy.

Fixes: 9a9eb104edf6 ("ethdev: parse multiple representor devargs")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
---
 lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c
index 70ddce5bfc..4043ce898f 100644
--- a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c
+++ b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c
@@ -583,10 +583,15 @@ eth_dev_tokenise_representor_list(char *p_val, struct rte_eth_devargs *eth_devar
 		return devargs;
 	}
 
+	/* len - 2 strips the outer '[' and ']'; guard against underflow and overflow */
+	if (len < 2 || (len - 2) >= BUFSIZ) {
+		RTE_ETHDEV_LOG_LINE(ERR, "Representor list too long or malformed: %s", p_val);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 	memset(str, 0, BUFSIZ);
 	memset(da_val, 0, BUFSIZ);
 	/* Remove the exterior [] of the consolidated list */
-	strncpy(str, &p_val[1], len - 2);
+	memcpy(str, &p_val[1], len - 2);
 	while (1) {
 		if (str[i] == '\0') {
 			if (da_val[0] != '\0') {
-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-06-23 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-23 14:19 [PATCH 0/3] lib: remove use of strncpy Bruce Richardson
2026-06-23 14:19 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2026-06-23 14:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] eventdev: improve bounds checks for names in adapter create Bruce Richardson
2026-06-23 14:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] vhost: remove use of strncpy Bruce Richardson
2026-06-24  1:53 ` [PATCH 0/3] lib: " fengchengwen

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