netdev - [PATCH iproute2] ip route: check ftell, fseek return value

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Message-Id: <1473143990-9291-1-git-send-email-liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue,  6 Sep 2016 14:39:50 +0800
From:   Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH iproute2] ip route: check ftell, fseek return value

ftell() may return -1 in error case, which is not handled and therefore pass a
negative offset to fseek(). The return code of fseek() is also not checked.

Reported-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
---
 ip/iproute.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ip/iproute.c b/ip/iproute.c
index 3da23af..ba877dc 100644
--- a/ip/iproute.c
+++ b/ip/iproute.c
@@ -1859,7 +1859,11 @@ static int iproute_restore(void)
 	if (route_dump_check_magic())
 		exit(-1);
 
-	pos = ftell(stdin);
+	if ((pos = ftell(stdin)) == -1) {
+		perror("Failed to restore: ftell");
+		exit(errno);
+	}
+
 	for (prio = 0; prio < 3; prio++) {
 		int err;
 
@@ -1867,7 +1871,10 @@ static int iproute_restore(void)
 		if (err)
 			exit(err);
 
-		fseek(stdin, pos, SEEK_SET);
+		if (fseek(stdin, pos, SEEK_SET) == -1) {
+			perror("Failed to restore: fseek");
+			exit(errno);
+		}
 	}
 
 	exit(0);
-- 
2.5.5