| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:02:32 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: michellammertink@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix append of whole original message on negative ack. David Miller wrote: > From: M Lammertink <michellammertink@...il.com> > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:17:51 +0200 > >> Can anyone explain to me why struct nlmsgerr contains an int error and the nlmsghdr struct. The comment in netlink_ack states that the whole message should be appended. Why not only include an int error in struct nlmsgerr and just append the original message? >> >> Comments appreciated. >> >> diff -uprN linux-2.6.27.3.orig/net/netlink/af_netlink.c linux-2.6.27.3/net/netlink/af_netlink.c >> --- linux-2.6.27.3.orig/net/netlink/af_netlink.c 2008-10-23 18:01:54.000000000 +0200 >> +++ linux-2.6.27.3/net/netlink/af_netlink.c 2008-10-23 18:04:22.000000000 +0200 >> @@ -1656,7 +1656,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, >> } >> >> rep = __nlmsg_put(skb, NETLINK_CB(in_skb).pid, nlh->nlmsg_seq, >> - NLMSG_ERROR, sizeof(struct nlmsgerr), 0); >> + NLMSG_ERROR, payload, 0) You can't include the full message since the resulting message might exceed the 64k netlink limit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists