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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	edumazet@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrii Staikov <andrii.staikov@intel.com>,
	richardcochran@gmail.com,
	Sunitha Mekala <sunithax.d.mekala@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] i40e: fix PTP pins verification
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 10:18:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230426071812.GK27649@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230425170406.2522523-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 10:04:06AM -0700, Tony Nguyen wrote:
> From: Andrii Staikov <andrii.staikov@intel.com>
> 
> Fix PTP pins verification not to contain tainted arguments. As a new PTP
> pins configuration is provided by a user, it may contain tainted
> arguments that are out of bounds for the list of possible values that can
> lead to a potential security threat. Change pin's state name from 'invalid'
> to 'empty' for more clarification.

And why isn't this handled in upper layer which responsible to get
user input?

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-26  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-25 17:04 [PATCH net 1/1] i40e: fix PTP pins verification Tony Nguyen
2023-04-26  7:18 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2023-04-26 13:52   ` Richard Cochran
2023-04-27 10:24     ` Paolo Abeni
2023-04-28 16:31       ` Tony Nguyen
2023-05-04 11:12       ` Staikov, Andrii
2023-05-04 20:50         ` Richard Cochran

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