netdev - [PATCH v2 1/5] net: ipv6/addrconf: avoid integer underflow in ipv6_create

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Message-ID: <20230829054623.104293-2-alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 23:44:43 -0600
From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jbohac@...e.cz,
	benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org,
	davem@...emloft.net,
	hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com,
	dsahern@...nel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com
Cc: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/5] net: ipv6/addrconf: avoid integer underflow in ipv6_create_tempaddr

The existing code incorrectly casted a negative value (the result of a
subtraction) to an unsigned value without checking. For example, if
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/temp_prefered_lft was set to 1, the preferred
lifetime would jump to 4 billion seconds. On my machine and network the
shortest lifetime that avoided underflow was 3 seconds.

Fixes: 76506a986dc3 (IPv6: fix DESYNC_FACTOR, 2016-10-13)
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 94cec2075eee..c93a2b9a9172 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ static int ipv6_create_tempaddr(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp, bool block)
 	 * idev->desync_factor if it's larger
 	 */
 	cnf_temp_preferred_lft = READ_ONCE(idev->cnf.temp_prefered_lft);
-	max_desync_factor = min_t(__u32,
+	max_desync_factor = min_t(long,
 				  idev->cnf.max_desync_factor,
 				  cnf_temp_preferred_lft - regen_advance);
 
-- 
2.42.0