netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] net: ipv6/addrconf: avoid integer underflow in ipv6_create

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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 07:53:16 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
To: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 jbohac@...e.cz, benoit.boissinot@...-lyon.org, davem@...emloft.net,
 hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com, pabeni@...hat.com, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: ipv6/addrconf: avoid integer underflow in
 ipv6_create_tempaddr

On 8/31/23 10:41 PM, Alex Henrie wrote:
> 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")
> Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@...il.com>
> ---
> Changes from v2:
> - Use conventional format for "Fixes" line
> - Send separately and leave the other four patches for later
> ---
>  net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>