This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bridge: check brport attr show in brport_show
to the 4.4-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:
bridge-check-brport-attr-show-in-brport_show.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Thu Mar 8 10:22:29 PST 2018
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:15:40 +0800
Subject: bridge: check brport attr show in brport_show
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 1b12580af1d0677c3c3a19e35bfe5d59b03f737f ]
Now br_sysfs_if file flush doesn't have attr show. To read it will
cause kernel panic after users chmod u+r this file.
Xiong found this issue when running the commands:
ip link add br0 type bridge
ip link add type veth
ip link set veth0 master br0
chmod u+r /sys/devices/virtual/net/veth0/brport/flush
timeout 3 cat /sys/devices/virtual/net/veth0/brport/flush
kernel crashed with NULL a pointer dereference call trace.
This patch is to fix it by return -EINVAL when brport_attr->show
is null, just the same as the check for brport_attr->store in
brport_store().
Fixes: 9cf637473c85 ("bridge: add sysfs hook to flush forwarding table")
Reported-by: Xiong Zhou <xzhou@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c
@@ -229,6 +229,9 @@ static ssize_t brport_show(struct kobjec
struct brport_attribute *brport_attr = to_brport_attr(attr);
struct net_bridge_port *p = to_brport(kobj);
+ if (!brport_attr->show)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
return brport_attr->show(p, buf);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/bridge-check-brport-attr-show-in-brport_show.patch