sprintf function is not secure as it doesn't check the length of string.
More secure function strlcat is used.

Fixes: 727909c592 ("app/test: introduce dynamic commands list")
Cc: sta...@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Pallantla Poornima <pallantlax.poorn...@intel.com>
---
v2: Used strlcat to avoid buffer overflow.
---
 app/test/commands.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/test/commands.c b/app/test/commands.c
index 94fbc310e..8d5a03a95 100644
--- a/app/test/commands.c
+++ b/app/test/commands.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include <cmdline_parse_num.h>
 #include <cmdline_parse_string.h>
 #include <cmdline.h>
+#include <rte_string_fns.h>
 
 #include "test.h"
 
@@ -365,23 +366,22 @@ cmdline_parse_ctx_t main_ctx[] = {
 int commands_init(void)
 {
        struct test_command *t;
-       char *commands, *ptr;
+       char *commands;
        int commands_len = 0;
 
        TAILQ_FOREACH(t, &commands_list, next) {
                commands_len += strlen(t->command) + 1;
        }
 
-       commands = malloc(commands_len + 1);
+       commands = (char *)calloc(commands_len, sizeof(char));
        if (!commands)
                return -1;
 
-       ptr = commands;
        TAILQ_FOREACH(t, &commands_list, next) {
-               ptr += sprintf(ptr, "%s#", t->command);
+               strlcat(commands, t->command, commands_len);
+               if (TAILQ_NEXT(t, next) != NULL)
+                       strlcat(commands, "#", commands_len);
        }
-       ptr--;
-       ptr[0] = '\0';
 
        cmd_autotest_autotest.string_data.str = commands;
        return 0;
-- 
2.17.2

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