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| author | YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> | 2007-03-30 14:45:35 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-04-02 13:30:54 -0700 |
| commit | b59e139bbd5c789700aa9cefe7eb6590bc516b86 (patch) | |
| tree | 32dfe5facbbf2e4ca83f4254986e05900a7693da /net | |
| parent | 31ba548f9683c5c5809567549b404404b6017088 (diff) | |
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[IPv6]: Fix incorrect length check in rawv6_sendmsg()
In article <20070329.142644.70222545.davem@davemloft.net> (at Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:26:44 -0700 (PDT)), David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> says:
> From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:17:28 -0700
>
> > The check for length in rawv6_sendmsg() is incorrect.
> > As len is an unsigned int, (len < 0) will never be TRUE.
> > I think checking for IPV6_MAXPLEN(65535) is better.
> >
> > Is it possible to send ipv6 jumbo packets using raw
> > sockets? If so, we can remove this check.
>
> I don't see why such a limitation against jumbo would exist,
> does anyone else?
>
> Thanks for catching this Sridhar. A good compiler should simply
> fail to compile "if (x < 0)" when 'x' is an unsigned type, don't
> you think :-)
Dave, we use "int" for returning value,
so we should fix this anyway, IMHO;
we should not allow len > INT_MAX.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/raw.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/udp.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c index 306d5d83c068..203e069e7fe9 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c @@ -687,9 +687,9 @@ static int rawv6_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, int err; /* Rough check on arithmetic overflow, - better check is made in ip6_build_xmit + better check is made in ip6_append_data(). */ - if (len < 0) + if (len > INT_MAX) return -EMSGSIZE; /* Mirror BSD error message compatibility */ diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c index 0ad471909881..f590db57a7c9 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/udp.c +++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ do_udp_sendmsg: return udp_sendmsg(iocb, sk, msg, len); /* Rough check on arithmetic overflow, - better check is made in ip6_build_xmit + better check is made in ip6_append_data(). */ if (len > INT_MAX - sizeof(struct udphdr)) return -EMSGSIZE; |
