On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 05:50:55AM -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
Please pull into 4.9 LTS: https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-power/-/commit/2c16db6c92b0ee4aa61e88366df82169e83c3f7e "net: fix nla_strcmp to handle more then one trailing null character" +++ lib/nlattr.c @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ int nla_strcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const char *str) - if (attrlen > 0 && buf[attrlen - 1] == '\0') + while (attrlen > 0 && buf[attrlen - 1] == '\0') which appears to be present in 4.14.233 (and presumably newer LTS), but not in 4.9: $ git log --oneline -n1 remotes/linux-stable/v4.14.233..143722a05028ebb8691d349007f85656a4e90a8e We've got some code that is confirmed failing due to the lack of this one-liner, and the fix is obvious enough...
Queued up, thanks!
(assuming it applies it presumably wouldn't hurt in 4.4 LTS either, but I think that tree isn't even maintained, and I don't care about it there)
No, no one cares :) -- Thanks, Sasha
