veth: Enforce minimum size of VETH_INFO_PEER
authorHagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:09:46 +0000 (04:09 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 1 Mar 2012 00:31:00 +0000 (16:31 -0800)
[ Upstream commit 237114384ab22c174ec4641e809f8e6cbcfce774 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/veth.c

index ef883e9..b907398 100644 (file)
@@ -423,7 +423,9 @@ 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,