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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:05:13 +0100
From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To: davem@...emloft.net
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, tcpdump-workers@...ts.tcpdump.org,
proski@....org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] af_packet: move strict addr_len check right
before dev_[mc/unicast]_[add/del]
Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:40:01AM CET, jpirko@...hat.com wrote:
>Subject: [net-2.6 PATCH] af_packet: move strict addr_len check right before dev_[mc/unicast]_[add/del]
Dave please apply this against net-next-2.6. I see that 914c8ad2d18b is still not in
net-2.6.
Thanks a lot
Jirka
>
>My previous patch 914c8ad2d18b62ad1420f518c0cab0b0b90ab308 incorrectly changed
>the length check in packet_mc_add to be more strict. The problem is that
>userspace is not filling this field (and it stays zeroed) in case of setting
>PACKET_MR_PROMISC or PACKET_MR_ALLMULTI. So move the strict check to the point
>in path where the addr_len must be set correctly.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>
>diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
>index 031a5e6..1612d41 100644
>--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
>+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
>@@ -1688,6 +1688,8 @@ static int packet_dev_mc(struct net_device *dev, struct packet_mclist *i,
> {
> switch (i->type) {
> case PACKET_MR_MULTICAST:
>+ if (i->alen != dev->addr_len)
>+ return -EINVAL;
> if (what > 0)
> return dev_mc_add(dev, i->addr, i->alen, 0);
> else
>@@ -1700,6 +1702,8 @@ static int packet_dev_mc(struct net_device *dev, struct packet_mclist *i,
> return dev_set_allmulti(dev, what);
> break;
> case PACKET_MR_UNICAST:
>+ if (i->alen != dev->addr_len)
>+ return -EINVAL;
> if (what > 0)
> return dev_unicast_add(dev, i->addr);
> else
>@@ -1734,7 +1738,7 @@ static int packet_mc_add(struct sock *sk, struct packet_mreq_max *mreq)
> goto done;
>
> err = -EINVAL;
>- if (mreq->mr_alen != dev->addr_len)
>+ if (mreq->mr_alen > dev->addr_len)
> goto done;
>
> err = -ENOBUFS;
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