-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Herbert Xu The function xfrm_policy_byid takes a dir argument but finds the policy using the index instead. We only use the dir argument to update the policy count for that direction. Since the user can supply any value for dir, this can corrupt our policy count. I know this is the problem because a few days ago I was deleting policies by hand using indicies and accidentally typed in the wrong direction. It still deleted the policy and at the time I thought that was cool. In retrospect it isn't such a good idea :) I decided against letting it delete the policy anyway just in case we ever remove the connection between indicies and direction. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.21.1.orig/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c +++ linux-2.6.21.1/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c @@ -782,6 +782,10 @@ struct xfrm_policy *xfrm_policy_byid(u8 struct hlist_head *chain; struct hlist_node *entry; + *err = -ENOENT; + if (xfrm_policy_id2dir(id) != dir) + return NULL; + *err = 0; write_lock_bh(&xfrm_policy_lock); chain = xfrm_policy_byidx + idx_hash(id); -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/