netdev - [PATCH 2/8] netfilter: ipset: small potential read beyond the end of buffer

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Message-Id: <1415984329-5569-4-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org>
Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:58:43 +0100
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] netfilter: ipset: small potential read beyond the end of buffer

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

We could be reading 8 bytes into a 4 byte buffer here.  It seems
harmless but adding a check is the right thing to do and it silences a
static checker warning.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
index 86f9d76..d259da3 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
@@ -1863,6 +1863,12 @@ ip_set_sockfn_get(struct sock *sk, int optval, void __user *user, int *len)
 	if (*op < IP_SET_OP_VERSION) {
 		/* Check the version at the beginning of operations */
 		struct ip_set_req_version *req_version = data;
+
+		if (*len < sizeof(struct ip_set_req_version)) {
+			ret = -EINVAL;
+			goto done;
+		}
+
 		if (req_version->version != IPSET_PROTOCOL) {
 			ret = -EPROTO;
 			goto done;
-- 
1.7.10.4

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