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authorYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>2007-03-31 01:45:35 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-04-03 00:30:54 +0400
commitb59e139bbd5c789700aa9cefe7eb6590bc516b86 (patch)
tree32dfe5facbbf2e4ca83f4254986e05900a7693da /net/ipv6/raw.c
parent31ba548f9683c5c5809567549b404404b6017088 (diff)
downloadlinux-b59e139bbd5c789700aa9cefe7eb6590bc516b86.tar.xz
[IPv6]: Fix incorrect length check in rawv6_sendmsg()
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/raw.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/raw.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
index 306d5d83c068..203e069e7fe9 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
@@ -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 */