Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2016-03-09

Re: [PATCH net 2/3] packet: validate variable length ll headers

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-03-07 17:38:35
Also in: linux-hams

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Willem de Bruijn
[off-list ref] wrote:
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>

Replace link layer header validation check ll_header_truncate with
more generic dev_validate_header.

Validation based on hard_header_len incorrectly drops valid packets
in variable length protocols, such as AX25. dev_validate_header
calls header_ops.validate for such protocols to ensure correctness
below hard_header_len.

See also http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/401064
Forgot to add

  Fixes 9c7077622dd9 ("packet: make packet_snd fail on len smaller
than l2 header")

This patch, if submitted to net, will have non-trivial merge conflicts
with net-next due to

  1d036d25e560 ("packet: tpacket_snd gso and checksum offload")

I maintain a patchset on top of net-next. Can send that to supersede
this one to resolve it (at the cost of only fixing the bug in the later
kernel version).
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 992396a..488678a 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -1916,6 +1916,10 @@ retry:
                goto retry;
        }

+       if (!dev_validate_header(dev, skb->data, len)) {
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               goto out_unlock;
+       }
        if (len > (dev->mtu + dev->hard_header_len + extra_len) &&
            !packet_extra_vlan_len_allowed(dev, skb)) {
                err = -EMSGSIZE;
@@ -2326,18 +2330,6 @@ static void tpacket_destruct_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
        sock_wfree(skb);
 }

-static bool ll_header_truncated(const struct net_device *dev, int len)
-{
-       /* net device doesn't like empty head */
-       if (unlikely(len < dev->hard_header_len)) {
-               net_warn_ratelimited("%s: packet size is too short (%d < %d)\n",
-                                    current->comm, len, dev->hard_header_len);
-               return true;
-       }
-
-       return false;
-}
-
 static void tpacket_set_protocol(const struct net_device *dev,
                                 struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
@@ -2420,14 +2412,14 @@ static int tpacket_fill_skb(struct packet_sock *po, struct sk_buff *skb,
                if (unlikely(err < 0))
                        return -EINVAL;
        } else if (dev->hard_header_len) {
-               if (ll_header_truncated(dev, tp_len))
-                       return -EINVAL;
+               int hhlen = min_t(int, dev->hard_header_len, tp_len);

                skb_push(skb, dev->hard_header_len);
-               err = skb_store_bits(skb, 0, data,
-                               dev->hard_header_len);
+               err = skb_store_bits(skb, 0, data, hhlen);
                if (unlikely(err))
                        return err;
+               if (!dev_validate_header(dev, skb->data, hhlen))
+                       return -EINVAL;
                if (!skb->protocol)
                        tpacket_set_protocol(dev, skb);
@@ -2758,14 +2750,12 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)

        skb_set_network_header(skb, reserve);

-       err = -EINVAL;
        if (sock->type == SOCK_DGRAM) {
                offset = dev_hard_header(skb, dev, ntohs(proto), addr, NULL, len);
-               if (unlikely(offset < 0))
-                       goto out_free;
-       } else {
-               if (ll_header_truncated(dev, len))
+               if (unlikely(offset < 0)) {
+                       err = -EINVAL;
                        goto out_free;
+               }
        }

        /* Returns -EFAULT on error */
@@ -2773,6 +2763,12 @@ static int packet_snd(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
        if (err)
                goto out_free;

+       if (sock->type == SOCK_RAW &&
+           !dev_validate_header(dev, skb->data, len)) {
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               goto out_free;
+       }
+
        sock_tx_timestamp(sk, &skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags);

        if (!gso_type && (len > dev->mtu + reserve + extra_len) &&
--
2.7.0.rc3.207.g0ac5344
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