On 2/20/2018 4:05 PM, Remy Horton wrote: > Fixes a potential memory overrun detected by Coverity. > This overrun cannot currently happen in practice because > rte_metrics_reg_names() explicitly forces the last name > character to be a NULL terminator. This patch adds the > same enforcement to rte_metrics_get_names() in order to > correct the warning, as well as using snprintf instead > of strncpy to copy name strings.
There is a patch from Bruce to convert snprintf to strlcpy [1], this patch can be part of that one. [1] https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/35976/ > > Coverity issue: 143434 > Fixes: 349950ddb9c5 ("metrics: add information metrics library") > Fixes: 710cab6f675a ("metrics: fix out of bound access") > > Signed-off-by: Remy Horton <remy.hor...@intel.com> <...>