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[PATCH v2] net/tap: fix coverity warning on strncpy

From: Keith Wiles <hidden>
Date: 2017-02-17 14:50:33
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Calling strncpy with a maximum size argument of 16 bytes on destination
array "ifr.ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name" of size 16 bytes might leave the
destination string unterminated.

Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
index efc4426..cf1cea3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ tap_link_set_flags(struct pmd_internals *pmd, short flags, int add)
 		return -1;
 	}
 	memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
-	strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, pmd->name, IFNAMSIZ);
+	strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, pmd->name, IFNAMSIZ - 1);
 	err = ioctl(s, SIOCGIFFLAGS, &ifr);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		RTE_LOG(WARNING, PMD, "Unable to get %s device flags: %s\n",
-- 
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