Re: [PATCH 4/5] net: add support for nvmem to eth_platform_get_mac_address()
From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Jul 18 2018 - 12:42:45 EST
> + if (!IS_ERR(nvmem)) {
> + addr = nvmem_cell_read(nvmem, &alen);
> + if (!IS_ERR(addr)) {
> + from = "nvmem";
> + /* Don't use ether_addr_copy() in case we
> + * didn't get the right size.
> + */
Please verify the size. A short read can still give a valid MAC
address, so the is_valid_ether_addr(addr) is not sufficient.
> + memcpy(addrbuf, addr, alen);
Another reason to check the length is that you appear to have a buffer
overflow here, if alen > 6.
Andrew
> + kfree(addr);
> + addr = addrbuf;
> + }
> +
> + nvmem_cell_put(nvmem);
> + }
> + }
> +
> if (!addr || !is_valid_ether_addr(addr))
> return -ENODEV;
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>