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| author | Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> | 2012-09-13 11:41:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2012-10-10 03:31:21 +0100 |
| commit | 468bf9f70353872173b11b92dc15fe84d3dacbb4 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b5ff3c0aff771fcbf4cfeea860bc8743913157c /net/xfrm | |
| parent | bf08fec505c1ab6a12679c214d7ccd20c8841382 (diff) | |
xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL
[ Upstream commit 864745d291b5ba80ea0bd0edcbe67273de368836 ]
When dump_one_state() returns an error, e.g. because of a too small
buffer to dump the whole xfrm state, xfrm_state_netlink() returns NULL
instead of an error pointer. But its callers expect an error pointer
and therefore continue to operate on a NULL skbuff.
This could lead to a privilege escalation (execution of user code in
kernel context) if the attacker has CAP_NET_ADMIN and is able to map
address 0.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/xfrm')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c index 7cae73eb4dbe..a092828fa691 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c @@ -862,6 +862,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_state_netlink(struct sk_buff *in_skb, { struct xfrm_dump_info info; struct sk_buff *skb; + int err; skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!skb) @@ -872,9 +873,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_state_netlink(struct sk_buff *in_skb, info.nlmsg_seq = seq; info.nlmsg_flags = 0; - if (dump_one_state(x, 0, &info)) { + err = dump_one_state(x, 0, &info); + if (err) { kfree_skb(skb); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(err); } return skb; |