2016-04-28 11:09, Dumitrescu, Cristian: > From: Kobylinski, MichalX > > Fix issue reported by Coverity. > > > > Coverity ID 13289: Integer overflowed argument: The argument will be too > > small or even negative, likely resulting in unexpected behavior (for > > example, under-allocation in a memory allocation function). > > In rte_cfgfile_load: An integer overflow occurs, with the overflowed > > value used as an argument to a function > > > > Fixes: eaafbad419bf ("cfgfile: library to interpret config files") > > > > Signed-off-by: Michal Kobylinski <michalx.kobylinski at intel.com> > > I don't understand the root issue here, can you please explain? > > It looks to me that "end" is always going to point to a location bigger or > equal to &buffer[1]. So the second parameter of _strip function is always > going to be a positive number (0 included).
Michal, any answer please?