From: Phil Yang <phil.y...@arm.com> Prevent from writing beyond the allocated memory.
GCC 10 compiling output: eal_common_trace_utils.c: In function 'eal_trace_dir_args_save': eal_common_trace_utils.c:290:24: error: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' \ may write a terminating nul past the end of the destination \ [-Werror=format-overflow=] 290 | sprintf(dir_path, "%s/", optarg); | ^ Fixes: 8af866df8d8c ("trace: add trace directory configuration parameter") Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.y...@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Lijian Zhang <lijian.zh...@arm.com> Tested-by: Lijian Zhang <lijian.zh...@arm.com> Acked-by: Sunil Kumar Kori <sk...@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> --- Changes since Phil patch: - removed single-use 'size' variable, - removed comment on PATH_MAX (this comment will get obsolete if trace->dir definition changes), - asprintf return code is not used, no need to store, --- lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c index 49cc8d7b1d..988d7593e1 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_trace_utils.c @@ -244,22 +244,19 @@ int eal_trace_dir_args_save(char const *val) { struct trace *trace = trace_obj_get(); - uint32_t size = sizeof(trace->dir); - char *dir_path = NULL; + char *dir_path; int rc; - if (strlen(val) >= size) { + if (strlen(val) >= sizeof(trace->dir) - 1) { trace_err("input string is too big"); return -ENAMETOOLONG; } - dir_path = (char *)calloc(1, size); - if (dir_path == NULL) { - trace_err("fail to allocate memory"); + if (asprintf(&dir_path, "%s/", val) == -1) { + trace_err("failed to copy directory: %s", strerror(errno)); return -ENOMEM; } - sprintf(dir_path, "%s/", val); rc = trace_dir_update(dir_path); free(dir_path); -- 2.23.0