Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mac_pton: Don't access memory over expected length

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 05:38:09PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:19:49 +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.
> 
> Quoting DaveM's revert mentioned in the commit message:
> 
>     First of all, the orion5x buffer is not NULL terminated.  mac_pton()
>     has no business operating on non-NULL terminated buffers because
>     only the caller can know that this is valid and in what manner it
>     is ok to parse this NULL'less buffer.
>     
>     Second of all, orion5x operates on an __iomem pointer, which cannot
>     be dereferenced using normal C pointer operations.  Accesses to
>     such areas much be performed with the proper iomem accessors.
> 
> So AFAICT only null-terminated strings are expected here, this patch
> does not fix any known issue. No need to put it in net (if it's needed
> at all).

So, what is the decision with this patch? Should I resend that with net-next
in the subject?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko