netdev - [PATCH 1/3] netfilter: Fix copy_to_user too small size parametre.

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Date:	Thu,  1 Mar 2012 14:46:30 +0530
From:	santosh nayak <santoshprasadnayak@...il.com>
To:	bart.de.schuymer@...dora.be
Cc:	pablo@...filter.org, kaber@...sh.net, shemminger@...tta.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] netfilter: Fix copy_to_user too small size parametre.

From: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@...il.com>

While copying to userspace, the size of source is 29byte where as
size parametre is 32 byte.  Its leaking extra-information from
kernel space to user space.
Replace EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN by XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN.

Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@...il.com>
---
 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
index 5864cc4..f3fcbd9 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -1335,7 +1335,7 @@ static inline int ebt_make_matchname(const struct ebt_entry_match *m,
     const char *base, char __user *ubase)
 {
 	char __user *hlp = ubase + ((char *)m - base);
-	if (copy_to_user(hlp, m->u.match->name, EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN))
+	if (copy_to_user(hlp, m->u.match->name, XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ static inline int ebt_make_watchername(const struct ebt_entry_watcher *w,
     const char *base, char __user *ubase)
 {
 	char __user *hlp = ubase + ((char *)w - base);
-	if (copy_to_user(hlp , w->u.watcher->name, EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN))
+	if (copy_to_user(hlp , w->u.watcher->name, XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ ebt_make_names(struct ebt_entry *e, const char *base, char __user *ubase)
 	ret = EBT_WATCHER_ITERATE(e, ebt_make_watchername, base, ubase);
 	if (ret != 0)
 		return ret;
-	if (copy_to_user(hlp, t->u.target->name, EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN))
+	if (copy_to_user(hlp, t->u.target->name, XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.7.4.4

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