From: Mathias Krause Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:41:26 +0000 (+0000) Subject: xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL X-Git-Tag: v3.0.46~74 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=66c41c804c27187c20f1c29aed3216caf69cca4f;p=karo-tx-linux.git xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL [ Upstream commit 864745d291b5ba80ea0bd0edcbe67273de368836 ] When dump_one_state() returns an error, e.g. because of a too small buffer to dump the whole xfrm state, xfrm_state_netlink() returns NULL instead of an error pointer. But its callers expect an error pointer and therefore continue to operate on a NULL skbuff. This could lead to a privilege escalation (execution of user code in kernel context) if the attacker has CAP_NET_ADMIN and is able to map address 0. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Acked-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c index c658cb3bc7c3..dbd285252027 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c @@ -862,6 +862,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_state_netlink(struct sk_buff *in_skb, { struct xfrm_dump_info info; struct sk_buff *skb; + int err; skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!skb) @@ -872,9 +873,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_state_netlink(struct sk_buff *in_skb, info.nlmsg_seq = seq; info.nlmsg_flags = 0; - if (dump_one_state(x, 0, &info)) { + err = dump_one_state(x, 0, &info); + if (err) { kfree_skb(skb); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(err); } return skb;