Fix issue reported by Coverity. Coverity ID 124556 If the buffer is treated as a null terminated string in later operations, a buffer overflow or over-read may occur.
In vhost_set_ifname: The string buffer may not have a null terminator if the source string's length is equal to the buffer size Fixes: 54292e9520e0 ("vhost: support ifname for vhost-user") Signed-off-by: Daniel Mrzyglod <danielx.t.mrzyglod at intel.com> --- lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c index d870ad9..f4695af 100644 --- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c @@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ vhost_set_ifname(struct vhost_device_ctx ctx, sizeof(dev->ifname) : if_len; strncpy(dev->ifname, if_name, len); + dev->ifname[sizeof(dev->ifname) - 1] = '\0'; } -- 2.5.5