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The patch has been corrupted by you email client. But otherwise, yes.
Please take a look at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/process/submitting-patches.html
It will give you hits about correctly formatting the patch. In
addition it should have:
Fixes: 4cd5773a2ae6 ("net: core: move mac_pton() to lib/net_utils.c")
before the --- line, to indicate what it is fixing.
This patch should be against
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git,
since it is a fix, and sent to [off-list ref].
Guys, consider this one instead:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/851008/
Hi Andy
Thanks for pointing this patch out.
What is the advantage of doing to the strnlen()? As Stefan says, the
code which follows will detect a short string, in that a NULL is not
in [0-9a-f], nor a : .
Thanks
Andrew