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Message-ID: <4806D847.2030806@trash.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:55:35 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	12o3l@...cali.nl, hadi@...erus.ca, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: catch signed nla_len() retval in tcf_simp_init()

David Miller wrote:
> From: Roel Kluin <12o3l@...cali.nl>
> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:33:21 +0200
> 
>> 'datalen' is unsigned, use 'ret' instead to catch a negative return value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@...cali.nl>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/net/sched/act_simple.c b/net/sched/act_simple.c
>> index fbde461..b78d015 100644
>> --- a/net/sched/act_simple.c
>> +++ b/net/sched/act_simple.c
>> @@ -114,9 +114,10 @@ static int tcf_simp_init(struct nlattr *nla, struct nlattr *est,
>>  	if (defdata == NULL)
>>  		return -EINVAL;
>>  
>> -	datalen = nla_len(tb[TCA_DEF_DATA]);
>> -	if (datalen <= 0)
>> +	ret = nla_len(tb[TCA_DEF_DATA]);
>> +	if (ret <= 0)
>>  		return -EINVAL;
>> +	datalen = ret;
>>  
>>  	pc = tcf_hash_check(parm->index, a, bind, &simp_hash_info);
>>  	if (!pc) {
> 
> This clobbers 'ret' which is compared to ACT_P_CREATED
> later in the function.  If the !pc branch below this code
> is not taken, ret must be left at it's initial value of
> zero.  Now, it will take on some non-zero positive value
> which is not correct.

The change is also unnecessary because the attribute was
already validated and the length can not be less than zero.

This patch changes it to only check for zero length.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>


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