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| author | 2026-05-01 02:58:41 -0700 | |
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| committer | 2026-05-04 18:37:25 -0700 | |
| commit | 76b93a8107574006b25495664304ea9237494d70 (patch) | |
| tree | ea29b42fa134f7a7bfba6a184951cb6aa1568348 /samples/kobject/ssh:/git@git.zx2c4.com | |
| parent | af_unix: Set gc_in_progress to true in unix_gc(). (diff) | |
netpoll: pass buffer size to egress_dev() to avoid MAC truncation
egress_dev() formats np->dev_mac via snprintf() but receives buf as
a bare char *, so it cannot derive the buffer size from the pointer. The
size argument was hardcoded to MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN (3 * ETH_ALEN - 1 = 17),
which is silly wrong in two ways:
1) misleading kernel log output on the MAC-selected target path
(np->dev_name[0] == '\0'); for example "aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff doesn't
exist, aborting" was logged as "aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:f doesn't exist,
aborting".
2) the second argument of snprintf is the size of the buffer, not the
size of what you want to write.
Add a bufsz parameter to egress_dev() and pass sizeof(buf) from each
caller, matching the standard snprintf() idiom and removing the
hardcoded size from the helper.
Every caller already declares "char buf[MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN + 1]" so the
formatted MAC continues to fit.
Tested by booting with
netconsole=6665@/aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff,6666@10.0.0.1/00:11:22:33:44:55
on a kernel without a matching device. Pre-fix dmesg shows
"aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:f doesn't exist, aborting"; post-fix shows the full
"aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff doesn't exist, aborting".
Fixes: f8a10bed32f5 ("netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260501-netpoll_snprintf_fix-v1-1-84b0566e6597@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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