This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ipv6/addrconf: avoid integer underflow in ipv6_create_tempaddr
to the 6.1-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:
net-ipv6-addrconf-avoid-integer-underflow-in-ipv6_cr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 2ba91b40d6cd8aa4e1a6371c581db6d7fb3fd836
Author: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Aug 31 22:41:27 2023 -0600
net: ipv6/addrconf: avoid integer underflow in ipv6_create_tempaddr
[ Upstream commit f31867d0d9d82af757c1e0178b659438f4c1ea3c ]
The existing code incorrectly casted a negative value (the result of a
subtraction) to an unsigned value without checking. For example, if
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/temp_prefered_lft was set to 1, the preferred
lifetime would jump to 4 billion seconds. On my machine and network the
shortest lifetime that avoided underflow was 3 seconds.
Fixes: 76506a986dc3 ("IPv6: fix DESYNC_FACTOR")
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 48a6486951cd6..83be842198244 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ static int ipv6_create_tempaddr(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp, bool block)
* idev->desync_factor if it's larger
*/
cnf_temp_preferred_lft = READ_ONCE(idev->cnf.temp_prefered_lft);
- max_desync_factor = min_t(__u32,
+ max_desync_factor = min_t(long,
idev->cnf.max_desync_factor,
cnf_temp_preferred_lft - regen_advance);
