linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: rtnetlink: bail out from rtnl_fdb

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Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 15:32:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     glider@...gle.com
Cc:     dvyukov@...gle.com, kcc@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rtnetlink: bail out from rtnl_fdb_dump() on parse
 error

From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 13:20:28 +0200

> rtnl_fdb_dump() failed to check the result of nlmsg_parse(), which led
> to contents of |ifm| being uninitialized because nlh->nlmsglen was too
> small to accommodate |ifm|. The uninitialized data may affect some
> branches and result in unwanted effects, although kernel data doesn't
> seem to leak to the userspace directly.
> 
> The bug has been detected with KMSAN and syzkaller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.