[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: dsa: Fix off-by-one in switch address parsing" has been added to staging queue
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Thu Aug 6 20:37:12 UTC 2015
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
net: dsa: Fix off-by-one in switch address parsing
to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt25.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 18:02:11 -0700
Subject: net: dsa: Fix off-by-one in switch address parsing
commit c8cf89f73f3d9ecbdea479778f0ac714be79be33 upstream.
cd->sw_addr is used as a MDIO bus address, which cannot exceed
PHY_MAX_ADDR (32), our check was off-by-one.
Fixes: 5e95329b701c ("dsa: add device tree bindings to register DSA switches")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
net/dsa/dsa.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/dsa/dsa.c b/net/dsa/dsa.c
index 0eb5d5e..ba6e12a 100644
--- a/net/dsa/dsa.c
+++ b/net/dsa/dsa.c
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ static int dsa_of_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
continue;
cd->sw_addr = be32_to_cpup(sw_addr);
- if (cd->sw_addr > PHY_MAX_ADDR)
+ if (cd->sw_addr >= PHY_MAX_ADDR)
continue;
for_each_available_child_of_node(child, port) {
--
1.9.1
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