connector: use nlmsg_len() to check message length
authorMathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:03:07 +0000 (22:03 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 2 Oct 2013 20:03:50 +0000 (16:03 -0400)
The current code tests the length of the whole netlink message to be
at least as long to fit a cn_msg. This is wrong as nlmsg_len includes
the length of the netlink message header. Use nlmsg_len() instead to
fix this "off-by-NLMSG_HDRLEN" size check.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.14+
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/connector/connector.c

index 6ecfa758942c50a4b33ebd399cd831ac1420277d..0daa11e418b14968a3720dfa5f35b81bee521eaf 100644 (file)
@@ -157,17 +157,18 @@ static int cn_call_callback(struct sk_buff *skb)
 static void cn_rx_skb(struct sk_buff *__skb)
 {
        struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
-       int err;
        struct sk_buff *skb;
+       int len, err;
 
        skb = skb_get(__skb);
 
        if (skb->len >= NLMSG_HDRLEN) {
                nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
+               len = nlmsg_len(nlh);
 
-               if (nlh->nlmsg_len < sizeof(struct cn_msg) ||
+               if (len < (int)sizeof(struct cn_msg) ||
                    skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len ||
-                   nlh->nlmsg_len > CONNECTOR_MAX_MSG_SIZE) {
+                   len > CONNECTOR_MAX_MSG_SIZE) {
                        kfree_skb(skb);
                        return;
                }