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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux•intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mac_pton: Don't access memory over expected length
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:19:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y0R+ZU6kdbeUER1c@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221005164301.14381-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

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.

	Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-10 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-05 16:43 [PATCH v1 1/1] mac_pton: Don't access memory over expected length Andy Shevchenko
2022-10-06  3:37 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-10-10 20:19 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2022-10-10 20:29   ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-10-10 20:45     ` Andrew Lunn
2022-11-08 13:55       ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-10-11  0:38   ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-11-08 13:51     ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-11-08 13:55       ` Andy Shevchenko

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