linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 70/72] ipv6: addrconf: validate new MTU before applying it

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Message-Id: <49f9add06964fe16997aa34099e7bb31c39b0314.1448283890.git.jslaby@suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:12:31 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcelo Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com>,
	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 70/72] ipv6: addrconf: validate new MTU before applying it

From: Marcelo Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

===============

commit 77751427a1ff25b27d47a4c36b12c3c8667855ac upstream.

Currently we don't check if the new MTU is valid or not and this allows
one to configure a smaller than minimum allowed by RFCs or even bigger
than interface own MTU, which is a problem as it may lead to packet
drops.

If you have a daemon like NetworkManager running, this may be exploited
by remote attackers by forging RA packets with an invalid MTU, possibly
leading to a DoS. (NetworkManager currently only validates for values
too small, but not for too big ones.)

The fix is just to make sure the new value is valid. That is, between
IPV6_MIN_MTU and interface's MTU.

Note that similar check is already performed at
ndisc_router_discovery(), for when kernel itself parses the RA.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 87f1a70bd234..38540a3ed92f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -4656,6 +4656,21 @@ int addrconf_sysctl_forward(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static
+int addrconf_sysctl_mtu(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
+			void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	struct inet6_dev *idev = ctl->extra1;
+	int min_mtu = IPV6_MIN_MTU;
+	struct ctl_table lctl;
+
+	lctl = *ctl;
+	lctl.extra1 = &min_mtu;
+	lctl.extra2 = idev ? &idev->dev->mtu : NULL;
+
+	return proc_dointvec_minmax(&lctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+}
+
 static void dev_disable_change(struct inet6_dev *idev)
 {
 	struct netdev_notifier_info info;
@@ -4767,7 +4782,7 @@ static struct addrconf_sysctl_table
 			.data		= &ipv6_devconf.mtu6,
 			.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 			.mode		= 0644,
-			.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+			.proc_handler	= addrconf_sysctl_mtu,
 		},
 		{
 			.procname	= "accept_ra",
-- 
2.6.3

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