Commit 17bcd27a authored by Ilya Leoshkevich's avatar Ilya Leoshkevich Committed by Andrii Nakryiko

libbpf: Fix alen calculation in libbpf_nla_dump_errormsg()

The code assumes that everything that comes after nlmsgerr are nlattrs.
When calculating their size, it does not account for the initial
nlmsghdr. This may lead to accessing uninitialized memory.

Fixes: bbf48c18 ("libbpf: add error reporting in XDP")
Signed-off-by: default avatarIlya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230210001210.395194-8-iii@linux.ibm.com
parent 202702e8
......@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int libbpf_nla_dump_errormsg(struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
hlen += nlmsg_len(&err->msg);
attr = (struct nlattr *) ((void *) err + hlen);
alen = nlh->nlmsg_len - hlen;
alen = (void *)nlh + nlh->nlmsg_len - (void *)attr;
if (libbpf_nla_parse(tb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX, attr, alen,
extack_policy) != 0) {
......
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