5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit f31867d0d9d82af757c1e0178b659438f4c1ea3c ]
The existing code incorrectly casted a negative value (the result of a
subtraction) to an unsigned value without checking. For example, if
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/temp_prefered_lft was set to 1, the preferred
lifetime would jump to 4 billion seconds. On my machine and network the
shortest lifetime that avoided underflow was 3 seconds.
Fixes: 76506a986dc3 ("IPv6: fix DESYNC_FACTOR")
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index a4c3cb72bdc6a..c523236d934eb 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ static int ipv6_create_tempaddr(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp,
* idev->desync_factor if it's larger
*/
cnf_temp_preferred_lft = READ_ONCE(idev->cnf.temp_prefered_lft);
- max_desync_factor = min_t(__u32,
+ max_desync_factor = min_t(long,
idev->cnf.max_desync_factor,
cnf_temp_preferred_lft - regen_advance);
--
2.40.1
