On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:17:48PM +0100, Stefan Hellermann wrote: > @@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ bool mac_pton(const char *s, u8 *mac) > { > int i; > > - /* XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX */ > - if (strlen(s) < 3 * ETH_ALEN - 1) > - return false; > - > /* Don't dirty result unless string is valid MAC. */ > for (i = 0; i < ETH_ALEN; i++) { > if (!isxdigit(s[i * 3]) || !isxdigit(s[i * 3 + 1])) Short string will bail in the loop, indeed. Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>