netdev - [PATCH net-next 8/8] ieee802154: add proper length checks to header creations

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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:23:33 +0100
From:	Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@...m.fraunhofer.de>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-zigbee-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, davem@...emloft.net,
	Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@...m.fraunhofer.de>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 8/8] ieee802154: add proper length checks to header creations

Have mac802154 header_ops.create fail with -EMSGSIZE if the length
passed will be too large to fit a frame. Since 6lowpan will ensure that
no packet payload will be too large, pass a length of 0 there. 802.15.4
dgram sockets will also return -EMSGSIZE on payloads larger than the
device MTU instead of -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@...m.fraunhofer.de>
---
 net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c |    2 +-
 net/ieee802154/dgram.c        |    2 +-
 net/mac802154/wpan.c          |    3 +++
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c
index 26d4c4c..a7bc65d 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan_rtnl.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static int lowpan_header_create(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 
 	return dev_hard_header(skb, lowpan_dev_info(dev)->real_dev,
-			type, (void *)&da, (void *)&sa, skb->len);
+			type, (void *)&da, (void *)&sa, 0);
 }
 
 static int lowpan_give_skb_to_devices(struct sk_buff *skb,
diff --git a/net/ieee802154/dgram.c b/net/ieee802154/dgram.c
index 55f2dc4..4c47154 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/dgram.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/dgram.c
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static int dgram_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
 
 	if (size > mtu) {
 		pr_debug("size = %Zu, mtu = %u\n", size, mtu);
-		err = -EINVAL;
+		err = -EMSGSIZE;
 		goto out_dev;
 	}
 
diff --git a/net/mac802154/wpan.c b/net/mac802154/wpan.c
index b614266..80cbee1 100644
--- a/net/mac802154/wpan.c
+++ b/net/mac802154/wpan.c
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ static int mac802154_header_create(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
 	skb->mac_len = hlen;
 
+	if (hlen + len + 2 > dev->mtu)
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
+
 	return hlen;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.9.5

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