[PATCH 3.2 62/94] ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash

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3.2.97-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 1137b5e2529a8f5ca8ee709288ecba3e68044df2 upstream.

This is a fix for CVE-2017-16939 suitable for older stable branches.
The upstream fix is commit 1137b5e2529a8f5ca8ee709288ecba3e68044df2,
from which the following explanation is taken:

    An independent security researcher, Mohamed Ghannam, has reported
    this vulnerability to Beyond Security's SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure
    program.
    
    The xfrm_dump_policy_done function expects xfrm_dump_policy to
    have been called at least once or it will crash.  This can be
    triggered if a dump fails because the target socket's receive
    buffer is full.

It was not possible to define a 'start' callback for netlink dumps
until Linux 4.5, so instead add a check for the initialisation flag in
the 'done' callback.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -1530,7 +1530,8 @@ static int xfrm_dump_policy_done(struct
 {
 	struct xfrm_policy_walk *walk = (struct xfrm_policy_walk *) &cb->args[1];
 
-	xfrm_policy_walk_done(walk);
+	if (cb->args[0])
+		xfrm_policy_walk_done(walk);
 	return 0;
 }
 




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