netdev - [PATCH] openvswitch: Avoid OOB read when parsing flow nlattrs

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Message-ID: <20190114091656.28594-1-ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:16:56 +0000
From:   Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@...rix.com>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
        Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@...rix.com>
Subject: [PATCH] openvswitch: Avoid OOB read when parsing flow nlattrs

For nested and variable attributes, the expected length of an attribute
is not known and marked by a negative number.  This results in an OOB
read when the expected length is later used to check if the attribute is
all zeros. Fix this by using the actual length of the attribute rather
than the expected length.

Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@...rix.com>
---
 net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
index 435a4bdf8f89..691da853bef5 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ static int __parse_flow_nlattrs(const struct nlattr *attr,
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 
-		if (!nz || !is_all_zero(nla_data(nla), expected_len)) {
+		if (!nz || !is_all_zero(nla_data(nla), nla_len(nla))) {
 			attrs |= 1 << type;
 			a[type] = nla;
 		}
-- 
2.17.2