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Date:   Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:19:49 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mac_pton: Don't access memory over expected length
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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