This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netlink: extack needs to be reset each time through loop
to the 4.14-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:
netlink-extack-needs-to-be-reset-each-time-through-loop.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sun Jan 28 17:35:08 CET 2018
From: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:00:39 -0800
Subject: netlink: extack needs to be reset each time through loop
From: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit cbbdf8433a5f117b1a2119ea30fc651b61ef7570 ]
syzbot triggered the WARN_ON in netlink_ack testing the bad_attr value.
The problem is that netlink_rcv_skb loops over the skb repeatedly invoking
the callback and without resetting the extack leaving potentially stale
data. Initializing each time through avoids the WARN_ON.
Fixes: 2d4bc93368f5a ("netlink: extended ACK reporting")
Reported-by: syzbot+315fa6766d0f7c359327@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2393,7 +2393,7 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct nlmsghdr *,
struct netlink_ext_ack *))
{
- struct netlink_ext_ack extack = {};
+ struct netlink_ext_ack extack;
struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
int err;
@@ -2414,6 +2414,7 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb,
if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
goto ack;
+ memset(&extack, 0, sizeof(extack));
err = cb(skb, nlh, &extack);
if (err == -EINTR)
goto skip;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dsahern@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/net-ipv4-make-ip-route-get-match-iif-lo-rules-again.patch
queue-4.14/net-vrf-add-support-for-sends-to-local-broadcast-address.patch
queue-4.14/netlink-extack-needs-to-be-reset-each-time-through-loop.patch
queue-4.14/netlink-reset-extack-earlier-in-netlink_rcv_skb.patch