linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] i40e: Add length check for IFLA_AF

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Message-ID: <2c84a81c.e2620.1898a5930be.Coremail.linma@zju.edu.cn>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:00:48 +0800 (GMT+08:00)
From:   "Lin Ma" <linma@....edu.cn>
To:     "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Leon Romanovsky" <leon@...nel.org>, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
        anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com, richardcochran@...il.com,
        ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, hawk@...nel.org,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re:  [PATCH v1] i40e: Add length check for IFLA_AF_SPEC parsing

Hello Jakub,

> On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:44:35 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > @@ -13186,6 +13186,9 @@ static int i40e_ndo_bridge_setlink(struct net_device *dev,
> > >  		if (nla_type(attr) != IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE)
> > >  			continue;
> > >  
> > > +		if (nla_len(attr) < sizeof(mode))
> > > +			return -EINVAL;
> > > +  
> > 
> > I see that you added this hunk to all users of nla_for_each_nested(), it
> > will be great to make that iterator to skip such empty attributes.
> > 
> > However, i don't know nettlink good enough to say if your change is
> > valid in first place.
> 
> Empty attributes are valid, we can't do that.
> 
> But there's a loop in rtnl_bridge_setlink() which checks the attributes.

Cool, I will check this out and prepare another patch.

> We can add the check there instead of all users, as Leon points out.
> (Please just double check that all ndo_bridge_setlink implementation
> expect this value to be a u16, they should/)

Okay, I will finish that ASAP

> -- 
> pw-bot: cr

Regards
Lin