[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net 00/13] ptp: Validate the ancillary ioctl flags more carefully.

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Nov 15 20:49:32 UTC 2019


From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:44:54 -0800

> The flags passed to the ioctls for periodic output signals and
> time stamping of external signals were never checked, and thus formed
> a useless ABI inadvertently.  More recently, a version 2 of the ioctls
> was introduced in order make the flags meaningful.  This series
> tightens up the checks on the new ioctl flags.
> 
> - Patch 1 ensures at least one edge flag is set for the new ioctl.
> - Patches 2-7 are Jacob's recent checks, picking up the tags.
> - Patch 8 introduces a "strict" flag for passing to the drivers when the
>   new ioctl is used.
> - Patches 9-12 implement the "strict" checking in the drivers.
> - Patch 13 extends the test program to exercise combinations of flags.

Series applied, thanks Richard.


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