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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:22:06 -0700
Subject: net: check dev->addr_len for dev_set_mac_address()
Patch-mainline: v4.13-rc4
Git-commit: 0254e0c632bfe4a0cf610e2d90397474144f00d2
References: bsc#1109837

Historically, dev_ifsioc() uses struct sockaddr as mac
address definition, this is why dev_set_mac_address()
accepts a struct sockaddr pointer as input but now we
have various types of mac addresse whose lengths
are up to MAX_ADDR_LEN, longer than struct sockaddr,
and saved in dev->addr_len.

It is too late to fix dev_ifsioc() due to API
compatibility, so just reject those larger than
sizeof(struct sockaddr), otherwise we would read
and use some random bytes from kernel stack.

Fortunately, only a few IPv6 tunnel devices have addr_len
larger than sizeof(struct sockaddr) and they don't support
ndo_set_mac_addr(). But with team driver, in lb mode, they
can still be enslaved to a team master and make its mac addr
length as the same.

Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
 net/core/dev_ioctl.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
+++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c
@@ -263,6 +263,8 @@ static int dev_ifsioc(struct net *net, s
 		return dev_set_mtu(dev, ifr->ifr_mtu);
 
 	case SIOCSIFHWADDR:
+		if (dev->addr_len > sizeof(struct sockaddr))
+			return -EINVAL;
 		return dev_set_mac_address(dev, &ifr->ifr_hwaddr);
 
 	case SIOCSIFHWBROADCAST: