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authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2017-07-20 11:27:57 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-07-20 15:23:22 -0700
commit153711f9421be5dbc973dc57a4109dc9d54c89b1 (patch)
tree06308fcd9cd16cf966d238f9ee60e6bac1a62e3f /net
parentbe35e8c516c1915a3035d266a2015b41f73ba3f9 (diff)
downloadlinux-153711f9421be5dbc973dc57a4109dc9d54c89b1.tar.bz2
rtnetlink: allocate more memory for dev_set_mac_address()
virtnet_set_mac_address() interprets mac address as struct sockaddr, but upper layer only allocates dev->addr_len which is ETH_ALEN + sizeof(sa_family_t) in this case. We lack a unified definition for mac address, so just fix the upper layer, this also allows drivers to interpret it to struct sockaddr freely. Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 11b25fbf3dd2..9201e3621351 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -2031,7 +2031,8 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb,
struct sockaddr *sa;
int len;
- len = sizeof(sa_family_t) + dev->addr_len;
+ len = sizeof(sa_family_t) + max_t(size_t, dev->addr_len,
+ sizeof(*sa));
sa = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sa) {
err = -ENOMEM;