Patch "act_connmark: avoid crashing on malformed nlattrs with null parms" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    act_connmark: avoid crashing on malformed nlattrs with null parms

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     act_connmark-avoid-crashing-on-malformed-nlattrs-with-null-parms.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Sat Mar 18 22:03:25 CST 2017
From: Etienne Noss <etienne.noss@wifirst.fr>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:55:32 +0100
Subject: act_connmark: avoid crashing on malformed nlattrs with null parms

From: Etienne Noss <etienne.noss@wifirst.fr>


[ Upstream commit 52491c7607c5527138095edf44c53169dc1ddb82 ]

tcf_connmark_init does not check in its configuration if TCA_CONNMARK_PARMS
is set, resulting in a null pointer dereference when trying to access it.

[501099.043007] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004
[501099.043039] IP: [<ffffffffc10c60fb>] tcf_connmark_init+0x8b/0x180 [act_connmark]
...
[501099.044334] Call Trace:
[501099.044345]  [<ffffffffa47270e8>] ? tcf_action_init_1+0x198/0x1b0
[501099.044363]  [<ffffffffa47271b0>] ? tcf_action_init+0xb0/0x120
[501099.044380]  [<ffffffffa47250a4>] ? tcf_exts_validate+0xc4/0x110
[501099.044398]  [<ffffffffc0f5fa97>] ? u32_set_parms+0xa7/0x270 [cls_u32]
[501099.044417]  [<ffffffffc0f60bf0>] ? u32_change+0x680/0x87b [cls_u32]
[501099.044436]  [<ffffffffa4725d1d>] ? tc_ctl_tfilter+0x4dd/0x8a0
[501099.044454]  [<ffffffffa44a23a1>] ? security_capable+0x41/0x60
[501099.044471]  [<ffffffffa470ca01>] ? rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xe1/0x220
[501099.044490]  [<ffffffffa470c920>] ? rtnl_newlink+0x870/0x870
[501099.044507]  [<ffffffffa472cc61>] ? netlink_rcv_skb+0xa1/0xc0
[501099.044524]  [<ffffffffa47073f4>] ? rtnetlink_rcv+0x24/0x30
[501099.044541]  [<ffffffffa472c634>] ? netlink_unicast+0x184/0x230
[501099.044558]  [<ffffffffa472c9d8>] ? netlink_sendmsg+0x2f8/0x3b0
[501099.044576]  [<ffffffffa46d8880>] ? sock_sendmsg+0x30/0x40
[501099.044592]  [<ffffffffa46d8e03>] ? SYSC_sendto+0xd3/0x150
[501099.044608]  [<ffffffffa425fda1>] ? __do_page_fault+0x2d1/0x510
[501099.044626]  [<ffffffffa47fbd7b>] ? system_call_fast_compare_end+0xc/0x9b

Fixes: 22a5dc0e5e3e ("net: sched: Introduce connmark action")
Signed-off-by: Étienne Noss <etienne.noss@wifirst.fr>
Signed-off-by: Victorien Molle <victorien.molle@wifirst.fr>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/sched/act_connmark.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/net/sched/act_connmark.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_connmark.c
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ static int tcf_connmark_init(struct net
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 
+	if (!tb[TCA_CONNMARK_PARMS])
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	parm = nla_data(tb[TCA_CONNMARK_PARMS]);
 
 	if (!tcf_hash_check(tn, parm->index, a, bind)) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from etienne.noss@wifirst.fr are

queue-4.9/act_connmark-avoid-crashing-on-malformed-nlattrs-with-null-parms.patch