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-rw-r--r--include/net/netlink.h13
-rw-r--r--lib/nlattr.c8
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index b318b0a9f6c3..318b1ded3833 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ enum {
NLA_S64,
NLA_BITFIELD32,
NLA_REJECT,
+ NLA_EXACT_LEN,
+ NLA_EXACT_LEN_WARN,
__NLA_TYPE_MAX,
};
@@ -211,6 +213,10 @@ enum {
* just like "All other"
* NLA_BITFIELD32 Unused
* NLA_REJECT Unused
+ * NLA_EXACT_LEN Attribute must have exactly this length, otherwise
+ * it is rejected.
+ * NLA_EXACT_LEN_WARN Attribute should have exactly this length, a warning
+ * is logged if it is longer, shorter is rejected.
* All other Minimum length of attribute payload
*
* Meaning of `validation_data' field:
@@ -236,6 +242,13 @@ struct nla_policy {
void *validation_data;
};
+#define NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(_len) { .type = NLA_EXACT_LEN, .len = _len }
+#define NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN_WARN(_len) { .type = NLA_EXACT_LEN_WARN, \
+ .len = _len }
+
+#define NLA_POLICY_ETH_ADDR NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(ETH_ALEN)
+#define NLA_POLICY_ETH_ADDR_COMPAT NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN_WARN(ETH_ALEN)
+
/**
* struct nl_info - netlink source information
* @nlh: Netlink message header of original request
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index 36d74b079151..bb6fe5ed4ecf 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -82,12 +82,18 @@ static int validate_nla(const struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype,
BUG_ON(pt->type > NLA_TYPE_MAX);
- if (nla_attr_len[pt->type] && attrlen != nla_attr_len[pt->type]) {
+ if ((nla_attr_len[pt->type] && attrlen != nla_attr_len[pt->type]) ||
+ (pt->type == NLA_EXACT_LEN_WARN && attrlen != pt->len)) {
pr_warn_ratelimited("netlink: '%s': attribute type %d has an invalid length.\n",
current->comm, type);
}
switch (pt->type) {
+ case NLA_EXACT_LEN:
+ if (attrlen != pt->len)
+ return -ERANGE;
+ break;
+
case NLA_REJECT:
if (pt->validation_data && error_msg)
*error_msg = pt->validation_data;