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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: fix type mismatch with error return from nft_parse_u32_check
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:55:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161025195556.GA10443@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477422484-27030-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 03:08:04PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Commit 36b701fae12ac ("netfilter: nf_tables: validate maximum value of
> u32 netlink attributes") introduced nft_parse_u32_check with a return
> value of "unsigned int", yet on error it returns "-ERANGE".
> 
> This patch corrects the mismatch by changing the return value to "int",
> which happens to match the actual users of nft_parse_u32_check already.
> 
> Found by Coverity, CID 1373930.
> 
> Note that commit 21a9e0f1568ea ("netfilter: nft_exthdr: fix error
> handling in nft_exthdr_init()) attempted to address the issue, but
> did not address the return type of nft_parse_u32_check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> Cc: Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com>
> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Fixes: 0eadf37afc250 ("netfilter: nf_tables: validate maximum value...")

The Fixes line is incorrect -- corrected patch to follow!

John
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-25 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-25 19:08 [PATCH] netfilter: fix type mismatch with error return from nft_parse_u32_check John W. Linville
2016-10-25 19:55 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2016-10-25 19:56 ` [PATCH v2] " John W. Linville
2016-10-27 16:26   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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