3.16.40-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 09525a09ad3099efd9ba49b0b90bddc350d6b53a upstream.
We don't want to allow negatives here.
Fixes: 36b701fae12a ('netfilter: nf_tables: validate maximum value of u32 netlink attributes')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -3725,7 +3725,7 @@ static int nf_tables_check_loops(const s
*/
unsigned int nft_parse_u32_check(const struct nlattr *attr, int max, u32 *dest)
{
- int val;
+ u32 val;
val = ntohl(nla_get_be32(attr));
if (val > max)