netdev - [RFC][PATCH 1/3] IPv6:Check the outgoing hop limit value

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:50:55 +0800
From:	Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] IPv6:Check the outgoing hop limit value

When specifing the outgoing hop limit as ancillary data for sendmsg(),
the kernel doesn't check the integer hop limit value as specified in 
[RFC-3542] section 6.3.


Signed-off-by: Shan Wei<shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
---
 net/ipv6/datagram.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/datagram.c b/net/ipv6/datagram.c
index b9c2de8..0f0f94a 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/datagram.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/datagram.c
@@ -705,6 +705,11 @@ int datagram_send_ctl(struct net *net,
 			}
 
 			*hlimit = *(int *)CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
+			if (*hlimit < -1 || *hlimit > 0xff) {
+				err = -EINVAL;
+				goto exit_f;
+			}
+
 			break;
 
 		case IPV6_TCLASS:
-- 

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