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; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html