* Patch "ip6_tunnel: better validate user provided tunnel names" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
@ 2018-04-11 9:03 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2018-04-11 9:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: edumazet, davem, gregkh; +Cc: stable, stable-commits
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ip6_tunnel: better validate user provided tunnel names
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ip6_tunnel-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Apr 11 10:26:56 CEST 2018
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 06:39:30 -0700
Subject: ip6_tunnel: better validate user provided tunnel names
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
[ Upstream commit db7a65e3ab78e5b1c4b17c0870ebee35a4ee3257 ]
Use valid_name() to make sure user does not provide illegal
device name.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -298,13 +298,16 @@ static struct ip6_tnl *ip6_tnl_create(st
struct net_device *dev;
struct ip6_tnl *t;
char name[IFNAMSIZ];
- int err = -ENOMEM;
+ int err = -E2BIG;
- if (p->name[0])
+ if (p->name[0]) {
+ if (!dev_valid_name(p->name))
+ goto failed;
strlcpy(name, p->name, IFNAMSIZ);
- else
+ } else {
sprintf(name, "ip6tnl%%d");
-
+ }
+ err = -ENOMEM;
dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(*t), name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN,
ip6_tnl_dev_setup);
if (!dev)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@google.com are
queue-4.9/tcp-better-validation-of-received-ack-sequences.patch
queue-4.9/sctp-sctp_sockaddr_af-must-check-minimal-addr-length-for-af_inet6.patch
queue-4.9/net-fix-possible-out-of-bound-read-in-skb_network_protocol.patch
queue-4.9/pptp-remove-a-buggy-dst-release-in-pptp_connect.patch
queue-4.9/x86-asm-don-t-use-rbp-as-a-temporary-register-in-csum_partial_copy_generic.patch
queue-4.9/net-fool-proof-dev_valid_name.patch
queue-4.9/ipv6-the-entire-ipv6-header-chain-must-fit-the-first-fragment.patch
queue-4.9/vti6-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch
queue-4.9/ipv6-sit-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch
queue-4.9/ip6_tunnel-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch
queue-4.9/sctp-do-not-leak-kernel-memory-to-user-space.patch
queue-4.9/ip_tunnel-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch
queue-4.9/skbuff-only-inherit-relevant-tx_flags.patch
queue-4.9/netlink-make-sure-nladdr-has-correct-size-in-netlink_connect.patch
queue-4.9/ip6_gre-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch
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