Thread (63 messages) 63 messages, 4 authors, 2016-02-02
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[PATCH 3.14 36/59] bridge: Only call /sbin/bridge-stp for the initial network namespace

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2016-01-27 20:08:02
Also in: lkml

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <redacted>

[ Upstream commit ff62198553e43cdffa9d539f6165d3e83f8a42bc ]

[I stole this patch from Eric Biederman. He wrote:]
There is no defined mechanism to pass network namespace information
into /sbin/bridge-stp therefore don't even try to invoke it except
for bridge devices in the initial network namespace.

It is possible for unprivileged users to cause /sbin/bridge-stp to be
invoked for any network device name which if /sbin/bridge-stp does not
guard against unreasonable arguments or being invoked twice on the
same network device could cause problems.
[Hannes: changed patch using netns_eq]

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/bridge/br_stp_if.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
@@ -128,7 +128,10 @@ static void br_stp_start(struct net_brid
 	char *argv[] = { BR_STP_PROG, br->dev->name, "start", NULL };
 	char *envp[] = { NULL };
 
-	r = call_usermodehelper(BR_STP_PROG, argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_PROC);
+	if (net_eq(dev_net(br->dev), &init_net))
+		r = call_usermodehelper(BR_STP_PROG, argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_PROC);
+	else
+		r = -ENOENT;
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
 

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