From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , "David S. Miller" , John Fastabend Subject: [ 04/46] macvlan: validate flags Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:58:15 -0700 Message-Id: <20130912175721.545555624@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130912175721.001906199@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130912175721.001906199@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" [ Upstream commit 1512747820367c8b3b8b72035f0f78c62f2bf1e9 ] commit df8ef8f3aaa6692970a436204c4429210addb23a macvlan: add FDB bridge ops and macvlan flags added a flags field to macvlan, which can be controlled from userspace. The idea is to make the interface future-proof so we can add flags and not new fields. However, flags value isn't validated, as a result, userspace can't detect which flags are supported. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: John Fastabend Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -727,6 +727,10 @@ static int macvlan_validate(struct nlatt return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; } + if (data && data[IFLA_MACVLAN_FLAGS] && + nla_get_u16(data[IFLA_MACVLAN_FLAGS]) & ~MACVLAN_FLAG_NOPROMISC) + return -EINVAL; + if (data && data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE]) { switch (nla_get_u32(data[IFLA_MACVLAN_MODE])) { case MACVLAN_MODE_PRIVATE: