This patch fixes buffer overflow reported by ASAN, please reference https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819
The rte_lpm6 keeps routing information for control plane purpose inside the rte_hash table which uses rte_jhash() as a hash function. >From the rte_jhash() documentation: If input key is not aligned to four byte boundaries or a multiple of four bytes in length, the memory region just after may be read (but not used in the computation). rte_lpm6 uses 17 bytes keys consisting of IPv6 address (16 bytes) + depth (1 byte). This patch increases the size of the depth field up to uint32_t and sets the alignment to 4 bytes. Bugzilla ID: 819 Fixes: 86b3b21952a8 ("lpm6: store rules in hash table") Cc: a...@therouter.net Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Vladimir Medvedkin <vladimir.medved...@intel.com> --- lib/lpm/rte_lpm6.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/lpm/rte_lpm6.c b/lib/lpm/rte_lpm6.c index 37baabb..d5e0918 100644 --- a/lib/lpm/rte_lpm6.c +++ b/lib/lpm/rte_lpm6.c @@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ struct rte_lpm6_rule { /** Rules tbl entry key. */ struct rte_lpm6_rule_key { uint8_t ip[RTE_LPM6_IPV6_ADDR_SIZE]; /**< Rule IP address. */ - uint8_t depth; /**< Rule depth. */ -}; + uint32_t depth; /**< Rule depth. */ +} __rte_aligned(sizeof(uint32_t)); /* Header of tbl8 */ struct rte_lpm_tbl8_hdr { -- 2.7.4