Commit 619e803d authored by Vegard Nossum's avatar Vegard Nossum Committed by David S. Miller

netlink: fix (theoretical) overrun in message iteration

See commit 1045b03e ("netlink: fix
overrun in attribute iteration") for a detailed explanation of why
this patch is necessary.

In short, nlmsg_next() can make "remaining" go negative, and the
remaining >= sizeof(...) comparison will promote "remaining" to an
unsigned type, which means that the expression will evaluate to
true for negative numbers, even though it was not intended.

I put "theoretical" in the title because I have no evidence that
this can actually happen, but I suspect that a crafted netlink
packet can trigger some badness.

Note that the last test, which seemingly has the exact same
problem (also true for nla_ok()), is perfectly OK, since we
already know that remaining is positive.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 64ff3b93
......@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static inline int nlmsg_attrlen(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int hdrlen)
*/
static inline int nlmsg_ok(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int remaining)
{
return (remaining >= sizeof(struct nlmsghdr) &&
return (remaining >= (int) sizeof(struct nlmsghdr) &&
nlh->nlmsg_len >= sizeof(struct nlmsghdr) &&
nlh->nlmsg_len <= remaining);
}
......
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