From: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:06:02 +0200
> Similarly as in commit 4f7d2cdfdde7 ("rtnetlink: verify IFLA_VF_INFO
> attributes before passing them to driver"), we have a double nesting
> of netlink attributes, i.e. IFLA_VF_PORTS only contains IFLA_VF_PORT
> that is nested itself. While IFLA_VF_PORTS is a verified attribute
> from ifla_policy[], we only check if the IFLA_VF_PORTS container has
> IFLA_VF_PORT attributes and then pass the attribute's content itself
> via nla_parse_nested(). It would be more correct to reject inner types
> other than IFLA_VF_PORT instead of continuing parsing and also similarly
> as in commit 4f7d2cdfdde7, to check for a minimum of NLA_HDRLEN.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>
Applied, thanks Daniel.
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