linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.5 020/151] netlink: Use netlink header as base to calculate bad attribute offset

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Message-Id: <20200317103328.261317927@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:53:50 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 5.5 020/151] netlink: Use netlink header as base to calculate bad attribute offset

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>

[ Upstream commit 84b3268027641401bb8ad4427a90a3cce2eb86f5 ]

Userspace might send a batch that is composed of several netlink
messages. The netlink_ack() function must use the pointer to the netlink
header as base to calculate the bad attribute offset.

Fixes: 2d4bc93368f5 ("netlink: extended ACK reporting")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2434,7 +2434,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb,
 							       in_skb->len))
 				WARN_ON(nla_put_u32(skb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_OFFS,
 						    (u8 *)extack->bad_attr -
-						    in_skb->data));
+						    (u8 *)nlh));
 		} else {
 			if (extack->cookie_len)
 				WARN_ON(nla_put(skb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_COOKIE,