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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2012-02-15 04:09:46 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-02-15 14:59:20 -0500
commit237114384ab22c174ec4641e809f8e6cbcfce774 (patch)
tree9571ac28f82724a140367ad754b4946a889f2b70 /drivers/net
parent78a5249fc9dc0f8c70221751dc79b6d918e5ee9a (diff)
downloadlinux-237114384ab22c174ec4641e809f8e6cbcfce774.tar.bz2
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/veth.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index 49f4667e1fa3..4a3402898f2a 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,