This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ppp: fix creating PPP pass and active filters
to the 3.15-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:
net-ppp-fix-creating-ppp-pass-and-active-filters.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.15 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 Sat Jul 26 10:16:13 PDT 2014
From: Christoph Schulz <develop@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:10:29 +0200
Subject: net: ppp: fix creating PPP pass and active filters
From: Christoph Schulz <develop@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit cc25eaae238ddd693aa5eaa73e565d8ff4915f6e ]
Commit 568f194e8bd16c353ad50f9ab95d98b20578a39d ("net: ppp: use
sk_unattached_filter api") inadvertently changed the logic when setting
PPP pass and active filters. This applies to both the generic PPP subsystem
implemented by drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c and the ISDN PPP subsystem
implemented by drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c. The original code in ppp_ioctl()
(or isdn_ppp_ioctl(), resp.) handling PPPIOCSPASS and PPPIOCSACTIVE allowed to
remove a pass/active filter previously set by using a filter of length zero.
However, with the new code this is not possible anymore as this case is not
explicitly checked for, which leads to passing NULL as a filter to
sk_unattached_filter_create(). This results in returning EINVAL to the caller.
Additionally, the variables ppp->pass_filter and ppp->active_filter (or
is->pass_filter and is->active_filter, resp.) are not reset to NULL, although
the filters they point to may have been destroyed by
sk_unattached_filter_destroy(), so in this EINVAL case dangling pointers are
left behind (provided the pointers were previously non-NULL).
This patch corrects both problems by checking whether the filter passed is
empty or non-empty, and prevents sk_unattached_filter_create() from being
called in the first case. Moreover, the pointers are always reset to NULL
as soon as sk_unattached_filter_destroy() returns.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Schulz <develop@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c
@@ -644,9 +644,15 @@ isdn_ppp_ioctl(int min, struct file *fil
fprog.len = len;
fprog.filter = code;
- if (is->pass_filter)
+ if (is->pass_filter) {
sk_unattached_filter_destroy(is->pass_filter);
- err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->pass_filter, &fprog);
+ is->pass_filter = NULL;
+ }
+ if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+ err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->pass_filter,
+ &fprog);
+ else
+ err = 0;
kfree(code);
return err;
@@ -663,9 +669,15 @@ isdn_ppp_ioctl(int min, struct file *fil
fprog.len = len;
fprog.filter = code;
- if (is->active_filter)
+ if (is->active_filter) {
sk_unattached_filter_destroy(is->active_filter);
- err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->active_filter, &fprog);
+ is->active_filter = NULL;
+ }
+ if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+ err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->active_filter,
+ &fprog);
+ else
+ err = 0;
kfree(code);
return err;
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -763,10 +763,15 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file,
};
ppp_lock(ppp);
- if (ppp->pass_filter)
+ if (ppp->pass_filter) {
sk_unattached_filter_destroy(ppp->pass_filter);
- err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->pass_filter,
- &fprog);
+ ppp->pass_filter = NULL;
+ }
+ if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+ err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->pass_filter,
+ &fprog);
+ else
+ err = 0;
kfree(code);
ppp_unlock(ppp);
}
@@ -784,10 +789,15 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file,
};
ppp_lock(ppp);
- if (ppp->active_filter)
+ if (ppp->active_filter) {
sk_unattached_filter_destroy(ppp->active_filter);
- err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->active_filter,
- &fprog);
+ ppp->active_filter = NULL;
+ }
+ if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+ err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->active_filter,
+ &fprog);
+ else
+ err = 0;
kfree(code);
ppp_unlock(ppp);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from develop@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.15/net-pppoe-use-correct-channel-mtu-when-using-multilink-ppp.patch
queue-3.15/net-ppp-don-t-call-sk_chk_filter-twice.patch
queue-3.15/net-ppp-fix-creating-ppp-pass-and-active-filters.patch
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