netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Allow mac_pton() to work on non-NULL terminated strings

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Date:   Fri, 23 Feb 2018 22:51:07 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Stefan Hellermann <stefan@...2masters.de>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, linux@....linux.org.uk,
        jason@...edaemon.net, dv@...lmann.ch,
        gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        "[ 4 . 4+ ]" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Allow mac_pton() to work on non-NULL terminated
 strings

On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 23:41 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:17:48PM +0100, Stefan Hellermann wrote:
> > @@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ bool mac_pton(const char *s, u8 *mac)
> >  {
> >  	int i;
> >  
> > -	/* XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX */
> > -	if (strlen(s) < 3 * ETH_ALEN - 1)
> > -		return false;
> > -
> >  	/* Don't dirty result unless string is valid MAC. */
> >  	for (i = 0; i < ETH_ALEN; i++) {
> >  		if (!isxdigit(s[i * 3]) || !isxdigit(s[i * 3 + 1]))
> 
> Short string will bail in the loop, indeed.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>

Since the author is okay with the change, I'm following:

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy