netdev - [PATCH 3/3] mpls: Prevent use of implicit NULL label as outgoing label

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Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:34:27 +0100
From:	Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
To:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] mpls: Prevent use of implicit NULL label as outgoing label

The reserved implicit-NULL label isn't allowed to appear in the label
stack for packets, so make it an error for the control plane to
specify it as an outgoing label.

Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@...cade.com>
---
 net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
index 7ac93082e3dc..eb8dc411859d 100644
--- a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
+++ b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
@@ -653,6 +653,15 @@ int nla_get_labels(const struct nlattr *nla,
 		if ((dec.bos != bos) || dec.ttl || dec.tc)
 			return -EINVAL;
 
+		switch (dec.label) {
+		case LABEL_IMPLICIT_NULL:
+			/* RFC3032: This is a label that an LSR may
+			 * assign and distribute, but which never
+			 * actually appears in the encapsulation.
+			 */
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+
 		label[i] = dec.label;
 	}
 	*labels = nla_labels;
-- 
2.1.4

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