This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libbpf: Fix alen calculation in libbpf_nla_dump_errormsg() to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: libbpf-fix-alen-calculation-in-libbpf_nla_dump_error.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b5c54ae85852ffbba5a3d9808f8f2e0c67bb7b29 Author: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 10 01:12:01 2023 +0100 libbpf: Fix alen calculation in libbpf_nla_dump_errormsg() [ Upstream commit 17bcd27a08a21397698edf143084d7c87ce17946 ] The code assumes that everything that comes after nlmsgerr are nlattrs. When calculating their size, it does not account for the initial nlmsghdr. This may lead to accessing uninitialized memory. Fixes: bbf48c18ee0c ("libbpf: add error reporting in XDP") Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230210001210.395194-8-iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/nlattr.c b/tools/lib/bpf/nlattr.c index b607fa9852b1c..1a04299a2a604 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/nlattr.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/nlattr.c @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int libbpf_nla_dump_errormsg(struct nlmsghdr *nlh) hlen += nlmsg_len(&err->msg); attr = (struct nlattr *) ((void *) err + hlen); - alen = nlh->nlmsg_len - hlen; + alen = (void *)nlh + nlh->nlmsg_len - (void *)attr; if (libbpf_nla_parse(tb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX, attr, alen, extack_policy) != 0) {