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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Cc: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] ethtool: strset: check nla_len overflow before nla_nest_end
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:46:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331184637.58b968ef@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260331-b4-ynl_ethtool-v1-3-dda2a9b55df8@gmail.com>

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:56:13 +0800 Hangbin Liu wrote:
> +		if (skb_tail_pointer(skb) - (unsigned char *)strings_attr > U16_MAX)
> +			goto nla_put_failure;

bit ugly, let's add a variant of nla_nest_end() which can return 
an error on overflow (without the warning from patch 4) ?

> +
>  		nla_nest_end(skb, strings_attr);

  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-01  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-31  3:56 [PATCH net-next 0/4] ynl/ethtool/netlink: warn nla_len overflow for large string sets Hangbin Liu
2026-03-31  3:56 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] tools: ynl: ethtool: use doit instead of dumpit for per-device GET Hangbin Liu
2026-04-01  1:50   ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-01  7:21     ` Hangbin Liu
2026-04-02  0:51       ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-02  1:26         ` Hangbin Liu
2026-03-31  3:56 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] tools: ynl: ethtool: add --dbg-small-recv option Hangbin Liu
2026-03-31  3:56 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] ethtool: strset: check nla_len overflow before nla_nest_end Hangbin Liu
2026-04-01  1:46   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-04-01  7:27     ` Hangbin Liu
2026-04-02  0:49       ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-02  1:30         ` Hangbin Liu
2026-03-31  3:56 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] netlink: warn on nla_len overflow in nla_nest_end() Hangbin Liu

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