When dump_one_policy() returns an error, e.g. because of a too small
buffer to dump the whole xfrm policy, xfrm_policy_netlink() returns
NULL instead of an error pointer. But its caller expects an error
pointer and therefore continues to operate on a NULL skbuff.
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <mini...@googlemail.com>
---
Note, this is a different, but similar issue as my previous patch
with the almost same subject.
I'm not aware of a way how to exploit this bug as the policy *should*
always fit into the netlink buffer but better safe then sorry, so cc
stable.
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index dac08e2..d12b625 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -1548,6 +1548,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_policy_netlink(struct sk_buff
*in_skb,
{
struct xfrm_dump_info info;
struct sk_buff *skb;
+ int err;
skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
@@ -1558,9 +1559,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_policy_netlink(struct
sk_buff *in_skb,
info.nlmsg_seq = seq;
info.nlmsg_flags = 0;
- if (dump_one_policy(xp, dir, 0, &info) < 0) {
+ err = dump_one_policy(xp, dir, 0, &info);
+ if (err) {
kfree_skb(skb);
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
}
return skb;
--
1.7.10.4
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