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authorAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>2008-05-21 14:52:30 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-05-21 14:52:30 -0700
commit59f0c4523fdea865fab7d69d878269992a9d08dd (patch)
tree4516d63a1c32fb8e06d0730527f3c54c02df2f87 /net/tipc/netlink.c
parentdc58c78c047fb01f4c13e7de91abc5eb931920b3 (diff)
downloadlinux-59f0c4523fdea865fab7d69d878269992a9d08dd.tar.gz
tipc: Fix skb_under_panic when configuring TIPC without privileges
This patch prevents a TIPC configuration command requiring network
administrator privileges from triggering an skbuff underrun if it
is issued by a process lacking those privileges.  The revised error
handling code avoids the use of a potentially uninitialized global
variable by transforming the unauthorized command into a new command,
then following the standard command processing path to generate the
required error message.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/netlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/netlink.c16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink.c b/net/tipc/netlink.c
index 6a7f7b4c2595..c387217bb230 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  * net/tipc/netlink.c: TIPC configuration handling
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2005-2006, Ericsson AB
- * Copyright (c) 2005, Wind River Systems
+ * Copyright (c) 2005-2007, Wind River Systems
  * All rights reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -45,15 +45,17 @@ static int handle_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	struct nlmsghdr *req_nlh = info->nlhdr;
 	struct tipc_genlmsghdr *req_userhdr = info->userhdr;
 	int hdr_space = NLMSG_SPACE(GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN);
+	u16 cmd;
 
 	if ((req_userhdr->cmd & 0xC000) && (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)))
-		rep_buf = tipc_cfg_reply_error_string(TIPC_CFG_NOT_NET_ADMIN);
+		cmd = TIPC_CMD_NOT_NET_ADMIN;
 	else
-		rep_buf = tipc_cfg_do_cmd(req_userhdr->dest,
-					  req_userhdr->cmd,
-					  NLMSG_DATA(req_nlh) + GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN,
-					  NLMSG_PAYLOAD(req_nlh, GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN),
-					  hdr_space);
+		cmd = req_userhdr->cmd;
+
+	rep_buf = tipc_cfg_do_cmd(req_userhdr->dest, cmd,
+			NLMSG_DATA(req_nlh) + GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN,
+			NLMSG_PAYLOAD(req_nlh, GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN),
+			hdr_space);
 
 	if (rep_buf) {
 		skb_push(rep_buf, hdr_space);