-----Original Message-----
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 18:19:19 +0800
> From: Andy Green <[email protected]>
> To: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> CC: [email protected], [email protected], Pablo de Lara
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bus/pci: fix driver name string manipulation
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> On 05/15/2018 06:03 PM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> > sizeof(dri_name) is 8B on 64Bit systems.The intended operation is coping
> > the string after '/' from the string `name`.
> >
> > This bug is not letting to probe any device string >8B hence results in
> > the testpmd error("No ethernet devices found) on some PMDs.
>
> You are right... but...
>
> > Cc: Andy Green <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Pablo de Lara <[email protected]>
> >
> > Fixes: fe5f777b538 ("bus/pci: replace strncpy by strlcpy")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c b/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c
> > index a73ee49c2..cd45875b1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci.c
> > @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ pci_get_kernel_driver_by_path(const char *filename, char
> > *dri_name)
> > name = strrchr(path, '/');
> > if (name) {
> > - strlcpy(dri_name, name + 1, sizeof(dri_name));
> > + strlcpy(dri_name, name + 1, strlen(name));
>
> ... this fix is no good. The underlying problem is the length of dri_name
> is not getting passed into this function... it just doesn't know how much of
> dri_name is safe to use. Telling it to use the strlen() of something
> unrelated is going to make buffer overflows possible.
In this case, already there is a check for following in the code. So it is fine
either way.
path[count] = '\0';
name = strrchr(path, '/');
>
> I sent a patch to the list a few hours ago that amends this function to take
> the allocated length of dri_name, and sets the limit for the strlcpy() to
> that, so no matter what turns up in name it's not possible to blow past
> dri_name allocation.
>
> [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bus/pci: correct the earlier strlcpy conversion​
I am fine with taking any of the of the patch. Please improve the patch subject
and bug description in case if you prefer to take your original patch.
>
> -Andy
>
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
