On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 09:21:40AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We could be reading 8 bytes into a 4 byte buffer here. It seems
> harmless but adding a check is the right thing to do and it silences a
> static checker warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> index 86f9d76..ac08a3f 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> @@ -1863,7 +1863,8 @@ ip_set_sockfn_get(struct sock *sk, int optval, void __user *user, int *len)
> if (*op < IP_SET_OP_VERSION) {
> /* Check the version at the beginning of operations */
> struct ip_set_req_version *req_version = data;
> - if (req_version->version != IPSET_PROTOCOL) {
> + if (*len < sizeof(struct ip_set_req_version) ||
> + req_version->version != IPSET_PROTOCOL) {
> ret = -EPROTO;
> goto done;
Thanks for catching up this.
>From other similar code in that location, I can see Jozsef is using
this pattern:
if (*len != sizeof(struct ip_set_req_version)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto done;
}
I think it would be good to stick to that for consistency. Thanks.
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