[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] net: remove CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP

Chris Packham judge.packham at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 03:15:44 UTC 2018


On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:15 PM Simon Goldschmidt
<simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:00 AM Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > No mainline board enables CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP and there have been
> > compilation issues with the code for some time. Additionally, it has a
> > potential buffer underrun issue (reported as a side note in
> > CVE-2018-18439).
> >
> > Remove the multicast TFTP code but keep the driver API for the future
> > addition of IPv6.
>
> Thanks for taking this.
> I expect that there will be merge conflicts between this patch any my
> patch fixing CVE-2018-18439.
>
> Joe, how should we proceed? I can rebase my series on top of this if you want.

I actually thought your latest series [1] won't conflict because you
dropped your version of this. I think your changes should take
precedence as it is fixing a real issue as opposed to my removal of
dead code. If anything I should rebase on top of your series.

[1] - http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1002685/


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