[ 16/98] rtnetlink: Mask the rta_type when range checking

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-26T23:42:53Z

From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit a5b8db91442fce9c9713fcd656c3698f1adde1d6 ]

Range/validity checks on rta_type in rtnetlink_rcv_msg() do
not account for flags that may be set. This causes the function
to return -EINVAL when flags are set on the type (for example
NLA_F_NESTED).

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -2539,7 +2539,7 @@ static int rtnetlink_rcv_msg(struct sk_b
struct rtattr *attr = (void *)nlh + NLMSG_ALIGN(min_len);

while (RTA_OK(attr, attrlen)) {
- unsigned int flavor = attr->rta_type;
+ unsigned int flavor = attr->rta_type & NLA_TYPE_MASK;
if (flavor) {
if (flavor > rta_max[sz_idx])
return -EINVAL;