[PATCH net-next 0/3] netlink: strict attribute checking follow-up

From: Michal Kubecek
Date: Thu May 02 2019 - 08:48:34 EST


Three follow-up patches for recent strict netlink validation series.

Patch 1 fixes dump handling for genetlink families which validate and parse
messages themselves (e.g. because they need different policies for diferent
commands).

Patch 2 sets bad_attr in extack in one place where this was omitted.

Patch 3 adds new NL_VALIDATE_NESTED flags for strict validation to enable
checking that NLA_F_NESTED value in received messages matches expectations
and includes this flag in NL_VALIDATE_STRICT. This would change userspace
visible behavior but the previous switching to NL_VALIDATE_STRICT for new
code is still only in net-next at the moment.

Michal Kubecek (3):
genetlink: do not validate dump requests if there is no policy
netlink: set bad attribute also on maxtype check
netlink: add validation of NLA_F_NESTED flag

include/net/netlink.h | 10 +++++++++-
lib/nlattr.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
net/netlink/genetlink.c | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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