Re: [PATCH v6 01/10] of: fix out-of-bounds read in of_alias_scan() stem parser

Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.stable,org.kernel.vger.linux-devicetree,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <CAMuHMdVkF6TCcxpPQnhFT9697eKA_jGRDSOATst0GGVajnzxQw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 at 22:31, Abdurrahman Hussain <[email protected]> wrote:
> The stem parser tests isdigit(*(end - 1)) before checking end > start
> and so reads one byte before the property name when the name is empty
> or all digits. Check the bound first.
>
> Fixes: 611cad720148 ("dt: add of_alias_scan and of_alias_get_id")
> Cc: [email protected]
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code]
> Signed-off-by: Abdurrahman Hussain <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected]

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.