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. -- 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