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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net/tap: fix coverity warning on strncpy
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:21:53 +0000
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On 2/17/2017 3:43 PM, Keith Wiles wrote:
> Calling strncpy with a maximum size argument of 16 bytes on destination
> array "ifr.ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name" of size 16 bytes might leave the
> destination string unterminated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>

    net/tap: fix possibly unterminated string

    Coverity issue: 1407499
    Fixes: 6b38b2725cdb ("net/tap: fix multi-queue support")
    Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.


(Updates:
- patch title:
It is preferred to mention from problem solved instead of the tool that
found it.

- Added coverity tag:
This helps to trace coverity issues, defined syntax is:

    Coverity issue: xxx
    Fixes: yyyy

- Added Cc: tag for stable tree:
In case stable tree wants get this patch, to make patch visible.
)