Multiple threads calling the same function may cause condition race issues, which often leads to abnormal behavior and can cause more serious vulnerabilities such as abnormal termination, denial of service, and compromised data integrity.
The strtok() is non-reentrant, it is better to replace it with a reentrant version. Fixes: 2054f31a1fcd ("mem: add memseg info in telemetry") Signed-off-by: Jie Hai <haij...@huawei.com> Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengcheng...@huawei.com> Acked-by: Amit Prakash Shukla <amitpraka...@marvell.com> Acked-by: Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com> --- lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c index a185e0b580c7..ace63313ea75 100644 --- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c +++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_memory.c @@ -1275,22 +1275,22 @@ parse_params(const char *params, uint32_t *vals, size_t n_vals) char dlim[2] = ","; char *params_args; size_t count = 0; - char *token; + char *token, *sp = NULL; if (vals == NULL || params == NULL || strlen(params) == 0) return -1; - /* strtok expects char * and param is const char *. Hence on using + /* strtok_r expects char * and param is const char *. Hence on using * params as "const char *" compiler throws warning. */ params_args = strdup(params); if (params_args == NULL) return -1; - token = strtok(params_args, dlim); + token = strtok_r(params_args, dlim, &sp); while (token && isdigit(*token) && count < n_vals) { vals[count++] = strtoul(token, NULL, 10); - token = strtok(NULL, dlim); + token = strtok_r(NULL, dlim, &sp); } free(params_args); -- 2.33.0