I think there might be a bug in this commit:
http://git.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=2c8fe5120f...
The commit makes "the netconsole buffer size configurable". It adds CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_BUFFER_SIZE and maintains the original 512 default value used to define the length of input_buffer[]. nc_input_packet uses sizeof this to read packet data into input_buffer[]. This appears fine.
The commit also adds to following in the output chain:
@@ -214,7 +218,7 @@ static void nc_puts(const char *s)
len = strlen(s); while (len) { - int send_len = min(len, 512); + int send_len = min(len, sizeof(input_buffer)); nc_send_packet(s, send_len); len -= send_len; s += send_len;
I can't see how this code relates to the sizeof input_buffer. The nc_puts data is written directly into NetTxPacket (plus header offsets) which is set to 1536 + alignment bytes long. If input_buffer is bigger than this, a buffer overflow will occur. Obviously the default value of 512 will not trigger the problem. The 512 magic number possibly ought to be derived from PKTSIZE_ALIGN (net.h), but I don't think sizeof(input_buffer) is appropriate here.
Regards, Nick.