[NET]: Fix signedness issues in net/core/filter.c
commit55820ee2f8c767a2833b21bd365e5753f50bd8ce
authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:08:10 +0000 (5 14:08 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:08:10 +0000 (5 14:08 -0700)
treefbf89b8f1365c18c5c2ee0fad15f61f6f3127af8
parent17af691cd19765b782d891fc50c1568d0f1276b3
[NET]: Fix signedness issues in net/core/filter.c

This is the code to load packet data into a register:

                        k = fentry->k;
                        if (k < 0) {
...
                        } else {
                                u32 _tmp, *p;
                                p = skb_header_pointer(skb, k, 4, &_tmp);
                                if (p != NULL) {
                                        A = ntohl(*p);
                                        continue;
                                }
                        }

skb_header_pointer checks if the requested data is within the
linear area:

        int hlen = skb_headlen(skb);

        if (offset + len <= hlen)
                return skb->data + offset;

When offset is within [INT_MAX-len+1..INT_MAX] the addition will
result in a negative number which is <= hlen.

I couldn't trigger a crash on my AMD64 with 2GB of memory, but a
coworker tried on his x86 machine and it crashed immediately.

This patch fixes the check in skb_header_pointer to handle large
positive offsets similar to skb_copy_bits. Invalid data can still
be accessed using negative offsets (also similar to skb_copy_bits),
anyone using negative offsets needs to verify them himself.

Thanks to Thomas Vögtle <thomas.voegtle@coreworks.de> for verifying the
problem by crashing his machine and providing me with an Oops.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/skbuff.h