[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 102/187] ipv6/addrconf: only check invalid header values when NETLINK_F_STRICT_CHK is set

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Dec 27 2019 - 12:52:56 EST


From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 2beb6d2901a3f73106485d560c49981144aeacb1 ]

In commit 4b1373de73a3 ("net: ipv6: addr: perform strict checks also for
doit handlers") we add strict check for inet6_rtm_getaddr(). But we did
the invalid header values check before checking if NETLINK_F_STRICT_CHK
is set. This may break backwards compatibility if user already set the
ifm->ifa_prefixlen, ifm->ifa_flags, ifm->ifa_scope in their netlink code.

I didn't move the nlmsg_len check because I thought it's a valid check.

Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 4b1373de73a3 ("net: ipv6: addr: perform strict checks also for doit handlers")
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 34ccef18b40e..f9b5690e94fd 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -5231,16 +5231,16 @@ static int inet6_rtm_valid_getaddr_req(struct sk_buff *skb,
return -EINVAL;
}

+ if (!netlink_strict_get_check(skb))
+ return nlmsg_parse_deprecated(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), tb, IFA_MAX,
+ ifa_ipv6_policy, extack);
+
ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
if (ifm->ifa_prefixlen || ifm->ifa_flags || ifm->ifa_scope) {
NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Invalid values in header for get address request");
return -EINVAL;
}

- if (!netlink_strict_get_check(skb))
- return nlmsg_parse_deprecated(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), tb, IFA_MAX,
- ifa_ipv6_policy, extack);
-
err = nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), tb, IFA_MAX,
ifa_ipv6_policy, extack);
if (err)
--
2.20.1