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Message-ID: <20081126234406.GA8970@xw6200.broadcom.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:44:06 -0800
From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
To: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
cc: "Matthew Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Validate ethtool autoneg before relaying
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 03:28:12PM -0800, Michael Chan wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 14:17 -0800, Matt Carlson wrote:
> > diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
> > index 14ada53..6362f56 100644
> > --- a/net/core/ethtool.c
> > +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
> > @@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ static int ethtool_set_settings(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
> > if (copy_from_user(&cmd, useraddr, sizeof(cmd)))
> > return -EFAULT;
> >
> > + if (cmd.autoneg != AUTONEG_ENABLE && cmd.autoneg != AUTONEG_DISABLE)
> > + return -EFAULT;
> > +
>
> Matt, you should return -EINVAL here instead.
Yes. You are right. I'll fix this in a revised patch if everyone
decides this is an effort worth pursuing.
> > return dev->ethtool_ops->set_settings(dev, &cmd);
> > }
> >
>
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