log: fix history buffer overflow
authorDongsu Han <dongsuh@cs.cmu.edu>
Thu, 2 May 2013 09:22:37 +0000 (09:22 +0000)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:01:57 +0000 (15:01 +0200)
The '\0' is written outside the bounds of the log buffer, which can
result in memory corruption or display issues with log messages.

Use a new constant LOG_BUF_SIZE to store the effective size of the
buffer in struct log_history.

Signed-off-by: Dongsu Han <dongsuh@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_log.c

index 53fa8bb..b93311e 100644 (file)
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 #include "eal_private.h"
 
 #define LOG_ELT_SIZE     2048
+#define LOG_BUF_SIZE     (LOG_ELT_SIZE - sizeof(struct log_history))
 
 #define LOG_HISTORY_MP_NAME "log_history"
 
@@ -195,7 +196,7 @@ rte_log_add_in_history(const char *buf, size_t size)
        }
 
        /* not enough room for msg, buffer go back in mempool */
-       if (size >= (LOG_ELT_SIZE - sizeof(*hist_buf))) {
+       if (size >= LOG_BUF_SIZE - 1) {
                rte_mempool_mp_put(log_history_mp, hist_buf);
                rte_spinlock_unlock(&log_list_lock);
                return -ENOBUFS;
@@ -203,7 +204,7 @@ rte_log_add_in_history(const char *buf, size_t size)
 
        /* add in history */
        memcpy(hist_buf->buf, buf, size);
-       hist_buf->buf[LOG_ELT_SIZE-1] = '\0';
+       hist_buf->buf[size] = '\0';
        hist_buf->size = size;
        STAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&log_history, hist_buf, next);
        rte_spinlock_unlock(&log_list_lock);