From: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>,
Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 3/6] net/ncsi: validate GMCMA address counts against the payload
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:03:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260422160342.1975093-4-michael.bommarito@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260422160342.1975093-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Get MC MAC Address responses carry a flexible array of provisioned
addresses, but the handler currently trusts address_count without first
checking that the advertised payload actually contains that many MAC
entries.
Validate the fixed GMCMA fields plus checksum, then make sure the
address_count fits in the remaining payload before the handler walks
the address array.
Fixes: b8291cf3d118 ("net/ncsi: Add NC-SI 1.2 Get MC MAC Address command")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
---
net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
index 47ddf2bbb13b..cbddb2012f90 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ static bool ncsi_filter_is_enabled(unsigned long enable, unsigned int index,
return index < nbits && (enable & BIT(index));
}
+static unsigned int ncsi_rsp_payload(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ struct ncsi_rsp_pkt_hdr *h;
+
+ h = (struct ncsi_rsp_pkt_hdr *)skb_network_header(skb);
+ return ntohs(h->common.length);
+}
+
static int ncsi_validate_rsp_pkt(struct ncsi_request *nr,
unsigned short payload)
{
@@ -1127,9 +1135,21 @@ static int ncsi_rsp_handler_gmcma(struct ncsi_request *nr)
struct sockaddr_storage *saddr = &ndp->pending_mac;
struct net_device *ndev = ndp->ndev.dev;
struct ncsi_rsp_gmcma_pkt *rsp;
+ unsigned int addr_bytes;
+ unsigned int payload;
int i;
rsp = (struct ncsi_rsp_gmcma_pkt *)skb_network_header(nr->rsp);
+ payload = ncsi_rsp_payload(nr->rsp);
+ if (payload < sizeof(rsp->address_count) + sizeof(rsp->reserved) +
+ sizeof(__be32))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ addr_bytes = payload - sizeof(rsp->address_count) -
+ sizeof(rsp->reserved) - sizeof(__be32);
+ if (rsp->address_count > addr_bytes / ETH_ALEN)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
ndev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE;
netdev_info(ndev, "NCSI: Received %d provisioned MAC addresses\n",
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-22 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20260422160342.1975093-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
2026-04-22 16:03 ` [PATCH net 1/6] net/ncsi: validate response packet lengths against the skb Michael Bommarito
2026-04-22 16:03 ` [PATCH net 2/6] net/ncsi: bound filter table state to software limits Michael Bommarito
2026-04-22 16:03 ` Michael Bommarito [this message]
2026-04-22 16:03 ` [PATCH net 4/6] net/ncsi: validate OEM response payloads before parsing Michael Bommarito
2026-04-22 16:03 ` [PATCH net 5/6] net/ncsi: validate AEN packet lengths against the skb Michael Bommarito
2026-04-22 16:03 ` [PATCH net 6/6] net/ncsi: validate GP payload lengths before parsing Michael Bommarito
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