netdev - Re: [PATCH] netlink: validate NLA

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Date:	Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:48:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: validate NLA_MSECS length

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:07:32 +0100

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> 
> L2TP for example uses NLA_MSECS like this:
> policy:
>         [L2TP_ATTR_RECV_TIMEOUT]        = { .type = NLA_MSECS, },
> code:
>         if (info->attrs[L2TP_ATTR_RECV_TIMEOUT])
>                 cfg.reorder_timeout = nla_get_msecs(info->attrs[L2TP_ATTR_RECV_TIMEOUT]);
> 
> As nla_get_msecs() is essentially nla_get_u64() plus the
> conversion to a HZ-based value, this will not properly
> reject attributes from userspace that aren't long enough
> and might overrun the message.
> 
> Add NLA_MSECS to the attribute minlen array to check the
> size properly.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

Applied, thanks!
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