From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:27:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] rtnetlink: allocate more memory for dev_set_mac_address()
References: bnc#1060662
Patch-mainline: v4.12.6
Git-commit: 153711f9421be5dbc973dc57a4109dc9d54c89b1
[ Upstream commit 153711f9421be5dbc973dc57a4109dc9d54c89b1 ]
virtnet_set_mac_address() interprets mac address as struct
sockaddr, but upper layer only allocates dev->addr_len
which is ETH_ALEN + sizeof(sa_family_t) in this case.
We lack a unified definition for mac address, so just fix
the upper layer, this also allows drivers to interpret it
to struct sockaddr freely.
Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 099eca1524c0..52bfeb60c886 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1977,7 +1977,8 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb,
struct sockaddr *sa;
int len;
- len = sizeof(sa_family_t) + dev->addr_len;
+ len = sizeof(sa_family_t) + max_t(size_t, dev->addr_len,
+ sizeof(*sa));
sa = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sa) {
err = -ENOMEM;
--
2.14.2