coverity complains about a null-termination after a read, so we terminate after exiting the do-while loop. The position is conditional on whether idx is within the buffer or at the end of the buffer.
Coverity issue: 337680 Fixes: a63504a90f ("examples/power: add JSON string handling") CC: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.h...@intel.com> --- v2: * Move null termination outside of do-while. --- examples/vm_power_manager/channel_monitor.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/examples/vm_power_manager/channel_monitor.c b/examples/vm_power_manager/channel_monitor.c index 971e4f2bc..03fdcd15a 100644 --- a/examples/vm_power_manager/channel_monitor.c +++ b/examples/vm_power_manager/channel_monitor.c @@ -822,6 +822,8 @@ read_json_packet(struct channel_info *chan_info) break; } while (indent > 0); + json_data[idx + (idx < MAX_JSON_STRING_LEN - 1)] = '\0'; + if (indent > 0) /* * We've broken out of the read loop without getting -- 2.17.1