linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 53/71] netlink: reset extack earlier in netlink_rcv

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:57:21 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+03bee3680a37466775e7@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 53/71] netlink: reset extack earlier in netlink_rcv_skb

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>


[ Upstream commit cd443f1e91ca600a092e780e8250cd6a2954b763 ]

Move up the extack reset/initialization in netlink_rcv_skb, so that
those 'goto ack' will not skip it. Otherwise, later on netlink_ack
may use the uninitialized extack and cause kernel crash.

Fixes: cbbdf8433a5f ("netlink: extack needs to be reset each time through loop")
Reported-by: syzbot+03bee3680a37466775e7@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2400,6 +2400,7 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	while (skb->len >= nlmsg_total_size(0)) {
 		int msglen;
 
+		memset(&extack, 0, sizeof(extack));
 		nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
 		err = 0;
 
@@ -2414,7 +2415,6 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
 		if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
 			goto ack;
 
-		memset(&extack, 0, sizeof(extack));
 		err = cb(skb, nlh, &extack);
 		if (err == -EINTR)
 			goto skip;