Re: [PATCH] net: mctp: fix infinite data from mctp_dump_addrinfo

[Jeremy Kerr]

Hi Patrick,

[+CC Andrew, for openbmc kernel reasons]

> So, it seems like there's something more subtle happening here - or I
> have misunderstood something about the fix (I'm unsure of the
> reference to xa_for_each_start; for_each_netdev_dump only calls xa_start?).

Ah! Are you on the openbmc 6.6 backport perhaps?

It look the xa_for_each_start()-implementation of netdev_for_each_dump()
would not be compatible with a direct backport of 2d20773aec14 ("mctp: no
longer rely on net->dev_index_head[]").

This was the update for the for_each_netdev_dump() macro:

commit f22b4b55edb507a2b30981e133b66b642be4d13f
Author: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Jun 13 14:33:16 2024 -0700

    net: make for_each_netdev_dump() a little more bug-proof
    
    I find the behavior of xa_for_each_start() slightly counter-intuitive.
    It doesn't end the iteration by making the index point after the last
    element. IOW calling xa_for_each_start() again after it "finished"
    will run the body of the loop for the last valid element, instead
    of doing nothing.

... which sounds like what's happening here.

Cheers,


Jeremy