From 237114384ab22c174ec4641e809f8e6cbcfce774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:09:46 +0000
Subject: veth: Enforce minimum size of VETH_INFO_PEER
VETH_INFO_PEER carries struct ifinfomsg plus optional IFLA
attributes. A minimal size of sizeof(struct ifinfomsg) must be
enforced or we may risk accessing that struct beyond the limits
of the netlink message.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
drivers/net/veth.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index 49f4667e1fa..4a3402898f2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -422,7 +422,9 @@ static void veth_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
unregister_netdevice_queue(peer, head);
}
-static const struct nla_policy veth_policy[VETH_INFO_MAX + 1];
+static const struct nla_policy veth_policy[VETH_INFO_MAX + 1] = {
+ [VETH_INFO_PEER] = { .len = sizeof(struct ifinfomsg) },
+};
static struct rtnl_link_ops veth_link_ops = {
.kind = DRV_NAME,
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