This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ip6_tunnel: better validate user provided tunnel names to the 4.9-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: ip6_tunnel-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Wed Apr 11 10:26:56 CEST 2018 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 06:39:30 -0700 Subject: ip6_tunnel: better validate user provided tunnel names From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit db7a65e3ab78e5b1c4b17c0870ebee35a4ee3257 ] Use valid_name() to make sure user does not provide illegal device name. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c @@ -298,13 +298,16 @@ static struct ip6_tnl *ip6_tnl_create(st struct net_device *dev; struct ip6_tnl *t; char name[IFNAMSIZ]; - int err = -ENOMEM; + int err = -E2BIG; - if (p->name[0]) + if (p->name[0]) { + if (!dev_valid_name(p->name)) + goto failed; strlcpy(name, p->name, IFNAMSIZ); - else + } else { sprintf(name, "ip6tnl%%d"); - + } + err = -ENOMEM; dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(*t), name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, ip6_tnl_dev_setup); if (!dev) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/tcp-better-validation-of-received-ack-sequences.patch queue-4.9/sctp-sctp_sockaddr_af-must-check-minimal-addr-length-for-af_inet6.patch queue-4.9/net-fix-possible-out-of-bound-read-in-skb_network_protocol.patch queue-4.9/pptp-remove-a-buggy-dst-release-in-pptp_connect.patch queue-4.9/x86-asm-don-t-use-rbp-as-a-temporary-register-in-csum_partial_copy_generic.patch queue-4.9/net-fool-proof-dev_valid_name.patch queue-4.9/ipv6-the-entire-ipv6-header-chain-must-fit-the-first-fragment.patch queue-4.9/vti6-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch queue-4.9/ipv6-sit-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch queue-4.9/ip6_tunnel-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch queue-4.9/sctp-do-not-leak-kernel-memory-to-user-space.patch queue-4.9/ip_tunnel-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch queue-4.9/skbuff-only-inherit-relevant-tx_flags.patch queue-4.9/netlink-make-sure-nladdr-has-correct-size-in-netlink_connect.patch queue-4.9/ip6_gre-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch