From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:34:01 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] net: allow newline terminated IP addresses in in_aton
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc1~474^2~22^2~7^2~96^2~17
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[PATCH] net: allow newline terminated IP addresses in in_aton

in_aton() gives weird results if it sees a newline at the end of the
input. This patch makes it able to handle such input correctly.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---

diff --git a/net/core/utils.c b/net/core/utils.c
index 7b5970fc9e..587eb7787d 100644
--- a/net/core/utils.c
+++ b/net/core/utils.c
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ __u32 in_aton(const char *str)
 		if (*str != '\0')
 		{
 			val = 0;
-			while (*str != '\0' && *str != '.')
+			while (*str != '\0' && *str != '.' && *str != '\n')
 			{
 				val *= 10;
 				val += *str - '0';