netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tipc: fix nl compat regression for link statistics

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Date:	Fri, 01 Jul 2016 16:49:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	richard.alpe@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	kjlu@...ech.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tipc: fix nl compat regression for link
 statistics

From: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 11:11:21 +0200

> Fix incorrect use of nla_strlcpy() where the first NLA_HDRLEN bytes
> of the link name where left out.
> 
> Making the output of tipc-config -ls look something like:
> Link statistics:
> dcast-link
> 1:data0-1.1.2:data0
> 1:data0-1.1.3:data0
> 
> Also, for the record, the patch that introduce this regression
> claims "Sending the whole object out can cause a leak". Which isn't
> very likely as this is a compat layer, where the data we are parsing
> is generated by us and we know the string to be NULL terminated. But
> you can of course never be to secure.
> 
> Fixes: 5d2be1422e02 (tipc: fix an infoleak in tipc_nl_compat_link_dump)
> Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>

Applied to 'net' since that is where the regression exists.

Please submit bug fixes to the correct tree.