On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:35:44AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The current ether_unformat_addr code was based off of
> BSD ether_aton. That version changed what was allowed
> by the cmdline ether address parser.
> For example, it allows dropping leading zeros.
>
> Change the code to be more restrictive and only allow the fully
> expanded standard formats.
>
> Bugzilla ID: 324
> Fixes: 596d31092d32 ("net: add function to convert string to ethernet
> address")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Olivier Matz <[email protected]>
