Re: [PATCH v2] ipv4: ping: fix bind address validity check

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 11:18:21AM -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 3:11 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello:
> > > >
> > > > This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
> > > > by David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>:
> > > >
> > > > 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

Great, now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h