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authorXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>2018-01-18 14:48:03 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-01-18 15:14:51 -0500
commitcd443f1e91ca600a092e780e8250cd6a2954b763 (patch)
treef76635f6578e3aaab43c44704889cbc27b788220 /net/netlink
parent7155f8f391576f133ed26c8d6bb8c7f03ceb404a (diff)
downloadlinux-cd443f1e91ca600a092e780e8250cd6a2954b763.tar.bz2
netlink: reset extack earlier in netlink_rcv_skb
Move up the extack reset/initialization in netlink_rcv_skb, so that those 'goto ack' will not skip it. Otherwise, later on netlink_ack may use the uninitialized extack and cause kernel crash. Fixes: cbbdf8433a5f ("netlink: extack needs to be reset each time through loop") Reported-by: syzbot+03bee3680a37466775e7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 47ef2d8683d6..84a4e4c3be4b 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2391,6 +2391,7 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
while (skb->len >= nlmsg_total_size(0)) {
int msglen;
+ memset(&extack, 0, sizeof(extack));
nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
err = 0;
@@ -2405,7 +2406,6 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
goto ack;
- memset(&extack, 0, sizeof(extack));
err = cb(skb, nlh, &extack);
if (err == -EINTR)
goto skip;