This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: ieee802154: return -EINVAL for unknown addr type to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-ieee802154-return-einval-for-unknown-addr-type.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 30393181fdbc1608cc683b4ee99dcce05ffcc8c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 22:02:37 -0400 Subject: net: ieee802154: return -EINVAL for unknown addr type From: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 30393181fdbc1608cc683b4ee99dcce05ffcc8c7 upstream. This patch adds handling to return -EINVAL for an unknown addr type. The current behaviour is to return 0 as successful but the size of an unknown addr type is not defined and should return an error like -EINVAL. Fixes: 94160108a70c ("net/ieee802154: fix uninit value bug in dgram_sendmsg") Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h +++ b/include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h @@ -185,21 +185,27 @@ static inline int ieee802154_sockaddr_check_size(struct sockaddr_ieee802154 *daddr, int len) { struct ieee802154_addr_sa *sa; + int ret = 0; sa = &daddr->addr; if (len < IEEE802154_MIN_NAMELEN) return -EINVAL; switch (sa->addr_type) { + case IEEE802154_ADDR_NONE: + break; case IEEE802154_ADDR_SHORT: if (len < IEEE802154_NAMELEN_SHORT) - return -EINVAL; + ret = -EINVAL; break; case IEEE802154_ADDR_LONG: if (len < IEEE802154_NAMELEN_LONG) - return -EINVAL; + ret = -EINVAL; + break; + default: + ret = -EINVAL; break; } - return 0; + return ret; } static inline void ieee802154_addr_from_sa(struct ieee802154_addr *a, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/fs-dlm-fix-race-between-test_bit-and-queue_work.patch queue-5.15/fs-dlm-fix-race-in-lowcomms.patch queue-5.15/net-ieee802154-return-einval-for-unknown-addr-type.patch queue-5.15/fs-dlm-handle-ebusy-first-in-lock-arg-validation.patch