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authorPablo Neira <pablo@netfilter.org>2014-04-01 19:38:44 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-04-01 15:25:02 -0400
commit8b7b932434f5eee495b91a2804f5b64ebb2bc835 (patch)
tree41fa7d3804b0a2f1e4c1ad252f6062ed17e83251 /lib/nlattr.c
parentff378ca17cf34cac0bb288f50999858101d5fd55 (diff)
downloadlinux-8b7b932434f5eee495b91a2804f5b64ebb2bc835.tar.gz
netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp
nla_strcmp compares the string length plus one, so it's implicitly
including the nul-termination in the comparison.

 int nla_strcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const char *str)
 {
        int len = strlen(str) + 1;
        ...
                d = memcmp(nla_data(nla), str, len);

However, if NLA_STRING is used, userspace can send us a string without
the nul-termination. This is a problem since the string
comparison will not match as the last byte may be not the
nul-termination.

Fix this by skipping the comparison of the nul-termination if the
attribute data is nul-terminated. Suggested by Thomas Graf.

Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/nlattr.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/nlattr.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index 18eca7809b08..fc6754720ced 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -303,9 +303,15 @@ int nla_memcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const void *data,
  */
 int nla_strcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const char *str)
 {
-	int len = strlen(str) + 1;
-	int d = nla_len(nla) - len;
+	int len = strlen(str);
+	char *buf = nla_data(nla);
+	int attrlen = nla_len(nla);
+	int d;
 
+	if (attrlen > 0 && buf[attrlen - 1] == '\0')
+		attrlen--;
+
+	d = attrlen - len;
 	if (d == 0)
 		d = memcmp(nla_data(nla), str, len);