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ethtool: Fix potential kernel buffer overflow in ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL
authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:44:07 +0000 (08:44 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:20:53 +0000 (10:20 -0700)
commit db048b69037e7fa6a7d9e95a1271a50dc08ae233 upstream.

On a 32-bit machine, info.rule_cnt >= 0x40000000 leads to integer
overflow and the buffer may be smaller than needed.  Since
ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL is unprivileged, this can presumably be used for at
least denial of service.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/core/ethtool.c

index 4c12ddb5f5ee43ab546278ba5527c2e10939824b..2c21f7aef9a2b50a0346c3e30b270af7b0105f26 100644 (file)
@@ -244,8 +244,9 @@ static int ethtool_get_rxnfc(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
 
        if (info.cmd == ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL) {
                if (info.rule_cnt > 0) {
-                       rule_buf = kmalloc(info.rule_cnt * sizeof(u32),
-                                          GFP_USER);
+                       if (info.rule_cnt <= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE / sizeof(u32))
+                               rule_buf = kmalloc(info.rule_cnt * sizeof(u32),
+                                                  GFP_USER);
                        if (!rule_buf)
                                return -ENOMEM;
                }