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[IPv6]: Fix incorrect length check in rawv6_sendmsg()

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In article <20070329.142644.70222545.davem@davemloft.net> (at Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:26:44 -0700 (PDT)), David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> says:

> From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:17:28 -0700
>
> > The check for length in rawv6_sendmsg() is incorrect.
> > As len is an unsigned int, (len < 0) will never be TRUE.
> > I think checking for IPV6_MAXPLEN(65535) is better.
> >
> > Is it possible to send ipv6 jumbo packets using raw
> > sockets? If so, we can remove this check.
>
> I don't see why such a limitation against jumbo would exist,
> does anyone else?
>
> Thanks for catching this Sridhar.  A good compiler should simply
> fail to compile "if (x < 0)" when 'x' is an unsigned type, don't
> you think :-)

Dave, we use "int" for returning value,
so we should fix this anyway, IMHO;
we should not allow len > INT_MAX.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 2007-03-30 14:45:35 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 31ba548f96
commit b59e139bbd
2 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions
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net/ipv6/raw.c
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@ -687,9 +687,9 @@ static int rawv6_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
int err;
/* Rough check on arithmetic overflow,
better check is made in ip6_build_xmit
better check is made in ip6_append_data().
*/
if (len < 0)
if (len > INT_MAX)
return -EMSGSIZE;
/* Mirror BSD error message compatibility */

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net/ipv6/udp.c
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@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ do_udp_sendmsg:
return udp_sendmsg(iocb, sk, msg, len);
/* Rough check on arithmetic overflow,
better check is made in ip6_build_xmit
better check is made in ip6_append_data().
*/
if (len > INT_MAX - sizeof(struct udphdr))
return -EMSGSIZE;