From: Omar Ramadan <omar@blockcast.net>
To: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net v4 3/5] amt: require an exact IPv4-sized IFLA_AMT_{LOCAL,DISCOVERY}_IP
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:54:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261013175407.947606-4-omar@blockcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261013175407.947606-1-omar@blockcast.net>
The netlink policy for IFLA_AMT_LOCAL_IP and IFLA_AMT_DISCOVERY_IP is an
untyped entry with .len set to the size of an IPv4 address, which netlink
validation treats as a minimum length only. Any longer payload passes,
and nla_get_in_addr() then reads just its first four bytes: an iproute2
that puts a 16-byte IPv6 literal in one of these IPv4 attributes turns
"2001:db8::" into 32.1.13.184, and the device is created with an address
the user never asked for.
Use NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(__be32)) for both, so every payload that
is not exactly four bytes long is refused with a standard extack instead
of being truncated. The range check this expands to fails the attribute
even under the liberal parsing rtnetlink applies to IFLA_INFO_DATA.
amt_get_size() and amt_fill_info() already emit exactly four bytes for
these attributes. IFLA_AMT_REMOTE_IP is only ever reported, never read
from a request, so it is left unchanged.
Fixes: b9022b53adad ("amt: add control plane of amt interface")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Omar Ramadan <omar@blockcast.net>
---
drivers/net/amt.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/amt.c b/drivers/net/amt.c
index e9b1a45..e466cf8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/amt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/amt.c
@@ -3201,9 +3201,9 @@ static const struct nla_policy amt_policy[IFLA_AMT_MAX + 1] = {
[IFLA_AMT_RELAY_PORT] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
[IFLA_AMT_GATEWAY_PORT] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
[IFLA_AMT_LINK] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
- [IFLA_AMT_LOCAL_IP] = { .len = sizeof_field(struct iphdr, daddr) },
+ [IFLA_AMT_LOCAL_IP] = NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(__be32)),
[IFLA_AMT_REMOTE_IP] = { .len = sizeof_field(struct iphdr, daddr) },
- [IFLA_AMT_DISCOVERY_IP] = { .len = sizeof_field(struct iphdr, daddr) },
+ [IFLA_AMT_DISCOVERY_IP] = NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(__be32)),
[IFLA_AMT_MAX_TUNNELS] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
};
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-13 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-13 17:54 [PATCH net v4 0/5] amt: relay tunnel lifetime, validation and request-path hardening Omar Ramadan
2026-10-13 17:54 ` [PATCH net v4 1/5] amt: fix use-after-free when a Membership Update re-arms a freed tunnel Omar Ramadan
2026-10-13 17:54 ` [PATCH net v4 2/5] amt: reject a gateway Query or Data from 0.0.0.0 before a relay is learned Omar Ramadan
2026-10-13 17:54 ` Omar Ramadan [this message]
2026-10-13 17:54 ` [PATCH net v4 4/5] amt: make pre-query report drops visible Omar Ramadan
2026-10-13 17:54 ` [PATCH net v4 5/5] amt: harden relay tunnel lifetime and request admission Omar Ramadan
2026-10-13 17:59 ` [PATCH net v4 0/5] amt: relay tunnel lifetime, validation and request-path hardening netdev-bot+sinfo
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