3.16.7-ckt24 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit ff62198553e43cdffa9d539f6165d3e83f8a42bc upstream. [I stole this patch from Eric Biederman. He wrote:] > There is no defined mechanism to pass network namespace information > into /sbin/bridge-stp therefore don't even try to invoke it except > for bridge devices in the initial network namespace. > > It is possible for unprivileged users to cause /sbin/bridge-stp to be > invoked for any network device name which if /sbin/bridge-stp does not > guard against unreasonable arguments or being invoked twice on the > same network device could cause problems. [Hannes: changed patch using netns_eq] Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bridge/br_stp_if.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c index 9a0005aee9ad..15022fdfab70 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c @@ -128,7 +128,10 @@ static void br_stp_start(struct net_bridge *br) char *argv[] = { BR_STP_PROG, br->dev->name, "start", NULL }; char *envp[] = { NULL }; - r = call_usermodehelper(BR_STP_PROG, argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_PROC); + if (net_eq(dev_net(br->dev), &init_net)) + r = call_usermodehelper(BR_STP_PROG, argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_PROC); + else + r = -ENOENT; spin_lock_bh(&br->lock); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html