[PATCH] ebtables: don't compute gap before checking struct type

We cannot compute the gap until we know we have a 'struct ebt_entry'
and not 'struct ebt_entries'.  Failure to check can cause crash.

Tested-by: Santiago Garcia Mantinan <manty@manty.net>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>

diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
index 136ed7d4bd7320fc679e21720c5cfd33fb072f52..473ca3ac6c867b6a0800b4b17da5ee09a77b2050 100644 (file)
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ ebt_check_entry(struct ebt_entry *e, struct ebt_table_info *newinfo,
        struct ebt_entry_target *t;
        struct ebt_target *target;
        unsigned int i, j, hook = 0, hookmask = 0;
-       size_t gap = e->next_offset - e->target_offset;
+       size_t gap;
        int ret;
 
        /* don't mess with the struct ebt_entries */
@@ -625,6 +625,7 @@ ebt_check_entry(struct ebt_entry *e, struct ebt_table_info *newinfo,
        if (ret != 0)
                goto cleanup_watchers;
        t = (struct ebt_entry_target *)(((char *)e) + e->target_offset);
+       gap = e->next_offset - e->target_offset;
        target = find_target_lock(t->u.name, &ret, &ebt_mutex);
        if (!target)
                goto cleanup_watchers;