netdev - Re: [patch] tun: signedness bug in tun_get

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Message-ID: <20130815200834.GE20294@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:08:35 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] tun: signedness bug in tun_get_user()

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 03:52:57PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The recent fix d9bf5f1309 "tun: compare with 0 instead of total_len" is
> not totally correct.  Because "len" and "sizeof()" are size_t type, that
> means they are never less than zero.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index af987f0..7ed13cc 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -977,8 +977,9 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
>  	u32 rxhash;
>  
>  	if (!(tun->flags & TUN_NO_PI)) {
> -		if ((len -= sizeof(pi)) < 0)
> +		if (len < sizeof(pi))
>  			return -EINVAL;
> +		len -= sizeof(pi);
>  
>  		if (memcpy_fromiovecend((void *)&pi, iv, 0, sizeof(pi)))
>  			return -EFAULT;
> @@ -986,8 +987,9 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
>  	}
>  
>  	if (tun->flags & TUN_VNET_HDR) {
> -		if ((len -= tun->vnet_hdr_sz) < 0)
> +		if (len < tun->vnet_hdr_sz)
>  			return -EINVAL;
> +		len -= tun->vnet_hdr_sz;
>  
>  		if (memcpy_fromiovecend((void *)&gso, iv, offset, sizeof(gso)))
>  			return -EFAULT;
> 

Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
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