On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 3:11 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 04:45:52PM -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 4:30 AM <patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
> > > by David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:54:35 +0200 you wrote:
> > > > Commit 8ff978b8b222 ("ipv4/raw: support binding to nonlocal addresses")
> > > > introduced a helper function to fold duplicated validity checks of bind
> > > > addresses into inet_addr_valid_or_nonlocal(). However, this caused an
> > > > unintended regression in ping_check_bind_addr(), which previously would
> > > > reject binding to multicast and broadcast addresses, but now these are
> > > > both incorrectly allowed as reported in [1].
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > >
> > > Here is the summary with links:
> > > - [v2] ipv4: ping: fix bind address validity check
> > > https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/b4a028c4d031
> > >
> > > You are awesome, thank you!
> > > --
> > > Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot.
> > > https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html
> >
> > I believe this [
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=b4a028c4d031
> > ] needs to end up in 5.17+ LTS (though I guess 5.17 is eol, so
> > probably just 5.18)
>
> 5.17 is end-of-life, sorry.
>
> And this needs to hit Linus's tree first.
It now has:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/net/ipv4/ping.c
ipv4: ping: fix bind address validity check
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/net/ipv4/ping.c?id=b4a028c4d031c27704ad73b1195ca69a1206941e
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Thanks,
Maciej
