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From: Artem Lytkin <iprintercanon@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bridge@lists.linux.dev, razor@blackwall.org, idosch@nvidia.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
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	sriharsha.basavapatna@broadcom.com, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com,
	przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org,
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Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: bridge: fail link info that does not fit the IFLA_AF_SPEC nest
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:50:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260912135022.1701-3-iprintercanon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260912135022.1701-1-iprintercanon@gmail.com>

br_fill_ifinfo() puts all of a port's VLAN, tunnel and MST entries into
one nest, and nla_len is a u16, so a large enough port produces a nest
whose length wraps and userspace reads garbage.

Cancel the message and return -E2BIG with an extack pointing at
RTM_GETVLAN instead. The dump retries the port with an empty skb and
the error goes to userspace; notifications reach rtnl_set_sk_err() and
listeners resync. Not -EMSGSIZE, since no bigger buffer would help.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Artem Lytkin <iprintercanon@gmail.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index 855a46aec3a89..53676df9e4d11 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ static int br_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			  const struct net_bridge_port *port,
 			  u32 pid, u32 seq, int event, unsigned int flags,
 			  u32 filter_mask, const struct net_device *dev,
-			  bool getlink)
+			  bool getlink, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
 {
 	u8 operstate = netif_running(dev) ? READ_ONCE(dev->operstate) :
 					    IF_OPER_DOWN;
@@ -613,6 +613,12 @@ static int br_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 done:
 	if (af) {
+		if (skb_tail_pointer(skb) - (unsigned char *)af > U16_MAX) {
+			NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
+					   "VLAN information does not fit in one message, use RTM_GETVLAN");
+			nlmsg_cancel(skb, nlh);
+			return -E2BIG;
+		}
 		if (nlmsg_get_pos(skb) - (void *)af > nla_attr_size(0))
 			nla_nest_end(skb, af);
 		else
@@ -654,7 +660,8 @@ void br_info_notify(int event, const struct net_bridge *br,
 	if (skb == NULL)
 		goto errout;
 
-	err = br_fill_ifinfo(skb, port, 0, 0, event, 0, filter, dev, false);
+	err = br_fill_ifinfo(skb, port, 0, 0, event, 0, filter, dev, false,
+			     NULL);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		/* -EMSGSIZE implies BUG in br_nlmsg_size() */
 		WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE);
@@ -693,7 +700,7 @@ int br_getlink(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, u32 seq,
 		return 0;
 
 	return br_fill_ifinfo(skb, port, pid, seq, RTM_NEWLINK, nlflags,
-			      filter_mask, dev, true);
+			      filter_mask, dev, true, extack);
 }
 
 static int br_vlan_info(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_bridge_port *p,
-- 
2.43.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-12 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-12 13:50 [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] bridge: report an oversized IFLA_AF_SPEC nest instead of truncating Artem Lytkin
2026-09-12 13:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] rtnetlink: pass extack to ndo_bridge_getlink() Artem Lytkin
2026-09-12 13:50 ` Artem Lytkin [this message]

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