netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ppp: clarify parsing of user supplied data in ppp_set

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Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:53:15 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	g.nault@...halink.fr
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, paulus@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ppp: clarify parsing of user supplied data in
 ppp_set_compress()

From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:59:43 +0100

>   * Split big conditional statement.
>   * Check (data.length <= CCP_MAX_OPTION_LENGTH) only once.
>   * Don't read ccp_option[1] if not initialised.
> 
> Reading uninitialised ccp_option[1] was harmless, because this could
> only happen when data.length was 0 or 1. So even then, we couldn't pass
> the (ccp_option[1] < 2 || ccp_option[1] > data.length) test anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>

Applied, thanks.