linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.11 18/28] rtnetlink: NUL-terminate IFLA_PHYS_PORT

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Message-Id: <20170511141222.248323090@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 11 May 2017 16:12:35 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.11 18/28] rtnetlink: NUL-terminate IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME string

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

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From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>

[ Upstream commit 77ef033b687c3e030017c94a29bf6ea3aaaef678 ]

IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME is a string attribute, so terminate it with \0.
Otherwise libnl3 fails to validate netlink messages with this attribute.
"ip -detail a" assumes too that the attribute is NUL-terminated when
printing it. It often was, due to padding.

I noticed this as libvirtd failing to start on a system with sfc driver
after upgrading it to Linux 4.11, i.e. when sfc added support for
phys_port_name.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ static int rtnl_phys_port_name_fill(stru
 		return err;
 	}

-	if (nla_put(skb, IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME, strlen(name), name))
+	if (nla_put_string(skb, IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME, name))
 		return -EMSGSIZE;

 	return 0;