3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tomas Hozza <tho...@redhat.com>

commit 95a69adab9acfc3981c504737a2b6578e4d846ef upstream.

The source code without this patch caused hypervkvpd to exit when it processed
a spoofed Netlink packet which has been sent from an untrusted local user.
Now Netlink messages with a non-zero nl_pid source address are ignored
and a warning is printed into the syslog.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <tho...@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  K. Y. Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
---
 tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -393,13 +393,19 @@ int main(void)
                len = recvfrom(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0,
                                addr_p, &addr_l);
 
-               if (len < 0 || addr.nl_pid) {
+               if (len < 0) {
                        syslog(LOG_ERR, "recvfrom failed; pid:%u error:%d %s",
                                        addr.nl_pid, errno, strerror(errno));
                        close(fd);
                        return -1;
                }
 
+               if (addr.nl_pid) {
+                       syslog(LOG_WARNING, "Received packet from untrusted 
pid:%u",
+                                       addr.nl_pid);
+                       continue;
+               }
+
                incoming_msg = (struct nlmsghdr *)kvp_recv_buffer;
                incoming_cn_msg = (struct cn_msg *)NLMSG_DATA(incoming_msg);
 


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