netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: rtnetlink: be more strict when setting MAC address

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Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:09:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	phil@....cc
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rtnetlink: be more strict when setting MAC address

From: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:06:47 +0200

> Upon evaluation of IFLA_ADDRESS and IFLA_BROADCAST messages, make sure
> the passed argument length matches dev->addr_len exactly.
> 
> This fixes dubious behaviour of 'ip link set eth0 addr <MAC>' where
> '<MAC>' is too long, e.g. '00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77'. Called like this,
> 'ip' would return successfully and the kernel sets eth0's MAC address to
> the leading six octets of the passed argument.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>

I don't think this behavior is very "dubious" and making the check more
strict risks breaking things that have worked for a very long time.

I'm not applying this, sorry.
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