netdev - [DECNet] fib: Fix out of bound access of fib

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Date:	Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:55:46 +0100
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [DECNet] fib: Fix out of bound access of fib_props[]

Fixes a typo which caused fib_props[] to have the wrong size
and makes sure the value used to index the array which is
provided by userspace via netlink is checked to avoid out of
bound access.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>

Index: net-2.6/net/decnet/dn_fib.c
===================================================================
--- net-2.6.orig/net/decnet/dn_fib.c	2006-11-29 13:35:51.000000000 +0100
+++ net-2.6/net/decnet/dn_fib.c	2006-11-29 13:36:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 {
 	int error;
 	u8 scope;
-} dn_fib_props[RTA_MAX+1] = {
+} dn_fib_props[RTN_MAX+1] = {
 	[RTN_UNSPEC] =      { .error = 0,       .scope = RT_SCOPE_NOWHERE },
 	[RTN_UNICAST] =     { .error = 0,       .scope = RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE },
 	[RTN_LOCAL] =       { .error = 0,       .scope = RT_SCOPE_HOST },
@@ -276,6 +276,9 @@
 	struct dn_fib_info *ofi;
 	int nhs = 1;
 
+	if (r->rtm_type > RTN_MAX)
+		goto err_inval;
+
 	if (dn_fib_props[r->rtm_type].scope > r->rtm_scope)
 		goto err_inval;
 
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