Subject: [PATCH net-next 3/5] netconsole: add support for strings with new line in netpoll_parse_ip_addr

From: Breno Leitao <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:52:03 -0700

The current IP address parsing logic fails when the input string
contains a trailing newline character. This can occur when IP
addresses are provided through configfs, which contains newlines in
a const buffer.

Teach netpoll_parse_ip_addr() how to ignore newlines at the end of the
IPs. Also, simplify the code by:

 * No need to check for separators. Try to parse ipv4, if it fails try
   ipv6 similarly to ceph_pton()
 * If ipv6 is not supported, don't call in6_pton() at all.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/net/netconsole.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index be946e8be72b1..7ea265752e021 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -363,20 +363,21 @@ static void trim_newline(char *s, size_t maxlen)
 static int netpoll_parse_ip_addr(const char *str, union inet_addr *addr)
 {
 	const char *end;
+	int len;
 
-	if (!strchr(str, ':') &&
-	    in4_pton(str, -1, (void *)addr, -1, &end) > 0) {
-		if (!*end)
-			return 0;
-	}
-	if (in6_pton(str, -1, addr->in6.s6_addr, -1, &end) > 0) {
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
-		if (!*end)
-			return 1;
-#else
+	len = strlen(str);
+	if (!len)
 		return -1;
+
+	if (str[len - 1] == '\n')
+		len -= 1;
+
+	if (in4_pton(str, len, (void *)addr, -1, &end) > 0)
+		return 0;
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
+	if (in6_pton(str, len, addr->in6.s6_addr, -1, &end) > 0)
+		return 1;
 #endif
-	}
 	return -1;
 }

-- 
2.47.1