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Message-ID: <20231013092004.GA4980@breakpoint.cc>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:20:04 +0200
From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To: Ma Ke <make_ruc2021@....com>
Cc: jmaloy@...hat.com, ying.xue@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net,
edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: Fix uninit-value access in tipc_nl_node_get_link()
Ma Ke <make_ruc2021@....com> wrote:
> Names must be null-terminated strings. If a name which is not
> null-terminated is passed through netlink, strstr() and similar
> functions can cause buffer overrun. This patch fixes this issue
> by returning -EINVAL if a non-null-terminated name is passed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make_ruc2021@....com>
> ---
> net/tipc/node.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/tipc/node.c b/net/tipc/node.c
> index 3105abe97bb9..a02bcd7e07d3 100644
> --- a/net/tipc/node.c
> +++ b/net/tipc/node.c
> @@ -2519,6 +2519,9 @@ int tipc_nl_node_get_link(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> name = nla_data(attrs[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME]);
> + if (name[strnlen(name,
> + nla_len(attrs[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME]))] != '\0')
> + return -EINVAL;
If the existing userspace is passing 0-terminated strings it would be
better to fix the policy (tipc_nl_link_policy) instead (and set NLA_NUL_STRING).
And if not, above change breaks userspace.
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