netdev - Re: [patch] netfilter: nf_tables: underflow in nft_parse_u32

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Date:   Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:27:19 +0800
From:   Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@...il.com>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netfilter Developer Mailing List 
        <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, coreteam@...filter.org,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] netfilter: nf_tables: underflow in nft_parse_u32_check()

2016-10-12 14:08 GMT+08:00 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>:
> We don't want to allow negatives here.
>
> Fixes: 36b701fae12a ('netfilter: nf_tables: validate maximum value of u32 netlink attributes')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> index b70d3ea..dd55187 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> @@ -4423,7 +4423,7 @@ static int nf_tables_check_loops(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
>   */

I think it's better if you can convert it to follows:

>  unsigned int nft_parse_u32_check(const struct nlattr *attr, int max, u32 *dest)

int nft_parse_u32_check(const struct nlattr *attr, u32 max, u32 *dest)

>  {
> -       int val;
> +       uint val;

            u32 val;

>
>         val = ntohl(nla_get_be32(attr));
>         if (val > max)