Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mac_pton: Don't access memory over expected length
From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Oct 10 2022 - 16:31:24 EST
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 10:19:49PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 07:43:01PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > The strlen() may go too far when estimating the length of
> > the given string. In some cases it may go over the boundary
> > and crash the system which is the case according to the commit
> > 13a55372b64e ("ARM: orion5x: Revert commit 4904dbda41c8.").
> >
> > Rectify this by switching to strnlen() for the expected
> > maximum length of the string.
>
> This seems like something which should have a fixes: tag, and be
> against net, not net-next.
I can (re-)send it that way. Just need a consensus by net maintainers.
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko