From: Christoph Schulz <develop@xxxxxxxxxx> Commit 568f194e8bd16c353ad50f9ab95d98b20578a39d ("net: ppp: use sk_unattached_filter api") inadvertently changed the logic when setting pass and active PPP filters. The original ppp_ioctl() code handling PPPIOCSPASS and PPPIOCSACTIVE allowed to remove a pass/active filter previously set by using a filter of length zero. However, with the new code this is not possible anymore as this case is not explicitly checked for, which leads to passing NULL as a filter to sk_unattached_filter_create(). This results in returning EINVAL to the caller. Additionally, ppp->pass_filter and ppp->active_filter are not reset by sk_unattached_filter_create() in this EINVAL case, so dangling pointers may be left behind. This patch corrects both problems by checking whether the filter passed is empty or not, and so prevents sk_unattached_filter_create() from being called for empty filters. This error is found in exactly the same way in the isdn4linux PPP driver, so it is fixed there the same way. Signed-off-by: Christoph Schulz <develop@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c index 61ac632..cd2f4c3 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c @@ -644,9 +644,15 @@ isdn_ppp_ioctl(int min, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) fprog.len = len; fprog.filter = code; - if (is->pass_filter) + if (is->pass_filter) { sk_unattached_filter_destroy(is->pass_filter); - err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->pass_filter, &fprog); + is->pass_filter = NULL; + } + if (fprog.filter != NULL) + err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->pass_filter, + &fprog); + else + err = 0; kfree(code); return err; @@ -663,9 +669,15 @@ isdn_ppp_ioctl(int min, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) fprog.len = len; fprog.filter = code; - if (is->active_filter) + if (is->active_filter) { sk_unattached_filter_destroy(is->active_filter); - err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->active_filter, &fprog); + is->active_filter = NULL; + } + if (fprog.filter != NULL) + err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->active_filter, + &fprog); + else + err = 0; kfree(code); return err; diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index 91d6c12..d0f6f93 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -763,10 +763,15 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) }; ppp_lock(ppp); - if (ppp->pass_filter) + if (ppp->pass_filter) { sk_unattached_filter_destroy(ppp->pass_filter); - err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->pass_filter, - &fprog); + ppp->pass_filter = NULL; + } + if (fprog.filter != NULL) + err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->pass_filter, + &fprog); + else + err = 0; kfree(code); ppp_unlock(ppp); } @@ -784,10 +789,15 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) }; ppp_lock(ppp); - if (ppp->active_filter) + if (ppp->active_filter) { sk_unattached_filter_destroy(ppp->active_filter); - err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->active_filter, - &fprog); + ppp->active_filter = NULL; + } + if (fprog.filter != NULL) + err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->active_filter, + &fprog); + else + err = 0; kfree(code); ppp_unlock(ppp); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html