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From: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] NET: catch signed nla_len() retval in tcf_simp_init()
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:33:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4806C501.20300@tiscali.nl> (raw)

'datalen' is unsigned, use 'ret' instead to catch a negative return value.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
---
diff --git a/net/sched/act_simple.c b/net/sched/act_simple.c
index fbde461..b78d015 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_simple.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_simple.c
@@ -114,9 +114,10 @@ static int tcf_simp_init(struct nlattr *nla, struct nlattr *est,
 	if (defdata == NULL)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	datalen = nla_len(tb[TCA_DEF_DATA]);
-	if (datalen <= 0)
+	ret = nla_len(tb[TCA_DEF_DATA]);
+	if (ret <= 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	datalen = ret;
 
 	pc = tcf_hash_check(parm->index, a, bind, &simp_hash_info);
 	if (!pc) {

             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-17  3:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-17  3:33 Roel Kluin [this message]
2008-04-17  4:37 ` [PATCH] NET: catch signed nla_len() retval in tcf_simp_init() David Miller
2008-04-17  4:55   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-17 12:58     ` jamal
2008-04-17 13:10       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-17 13:36         ` jamal
2008-04-18  6:20     ` David Miller

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