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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:02:55 +0900 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>, Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: [ 11/84] xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com> [ Upstream commit 864745d291b5ba80ea0bd0edcbe67273de368836 ] When dump_one_state() returns an error, e.g. because of a too small buffer to dump the whole xfrm state, xfrm_state_netlink() returns NULL instead of an error pointer. But its callers expect an error pointer and therefore continue to operate on a NULL skbuff. This could lead to a privilege escalation (execution of user code in kernel context) if the attacker has CAP_NET_ADMIN and is able to map address 0. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com> Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> --- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c @@ -862,6 +862,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_state_netlin { struct xfrm_dump_info info; struct sk_buff *skb; + int err; skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!skb) @@ -872,9 +873,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_state_netlin info.nlmsg_seq = seq; info.nlmsg_flags = 0; - if (dump_one_state(x, 0, &info)) { + err = dump_one_state(x, 0, &info); + if (err) { kfree_skb(skb); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(err); } return skb; -- 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/
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