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authorYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>2007-04-13 21:30:03 +0200
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>2007-04-13 22:58:26 +0200
commit889cde54cd2a82f6e4d7ed18440e0f6138b06d60 (patch)
treeb13392cf0116c46bb4546f7216ee78d75e2cce83
parent6d94f3b14205120019674b5a6a5502c9dadc4964 (diff)
[IPv6]: Fix incorrect length check in rawv6_sendmsg()
In article <20070329.142644.70222545.davem@davemloft.net> (at Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:26:44 -0700 (PDT)), David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> says: > From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:17:28 -0700 > > > The check for length in rawv6_sendmsg() is incorrect. > > As len is an unsigned int, (len < 0) will never be TRUE. > > I think checking for IPV6_MAXPLEN(65535) is better. > > > > Is it possible to send ipv6 jumbo packets using raw > > sockets? If so, we can remove this check. > > I don't see why such a limitation against jumbo would exist, > does anyone else? > > Thanks for catching this Sridhar. A good compiler should simply > fail to compile "if (x < 0)" when 'x' is an unsigned type, don't > you think :-) Dave, we use "int" for returning value, so we should fix this anyway, IMHO; we should not allow len > INT_MAX. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/raw.c4
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/udp.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
index ae20a0ec9bd..5babed88b08 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
@@ -641,9 +641,9 @@ static int rawv6_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
int err;
/* Rough check on arithmetic overflow,
- better check is made in ip6_build_xmit
+ better check is made in ip6_append_data().
*/
- if (len < 0)
+ if (len > INT_MAX)
return -EMSGSIZE;
/* Mirror BSD error message compatibility */
diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
index 513ed8f2ac0..f639439e715 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ do_udp_sendmsg:
return udp_sendmsg(iocb, sk, msg, len);
/* Rough check on arithmetic overflow,
- better check is made in ip6_build_xmit
+ better check is made in ip6_append_data().
*/
if (len > INT_MAX - sizeof(struct udphdr))
return -EMSGSIZE;