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netlink: validate NLA_MSECS length
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L2TP for example uses NLA_MSECS like this:
policy:
        [L2TP_ATTR_RECV_TIMEOUT]        = { .type = NLA_MSECS, },
code:
        if (info->attrs[L2TP_ATTR_RECV_TIMEOUT])
                cfg.reorder_timeout = nla_get_msecs(info->attrs[L2TP_ATTR_RECV_TIMEOUT]);

As nla_get_msecs() is essentially nla_get_u64() plus the
conversion to a HZ-based value, this will not properly
reject attributes from userspace that aren't long enough
and might overrun the message.

Add NLA_MSECS to the attribute minlen array to check the
size properly.

Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Johannes Berg authored and David S. Miller committed Nov 4, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ static const u16 nla_attr_minlen[NLA_TYPE_MAX+1] = {
[NLA_U16] = sizeof(u16),
[NLA_U32] = sizeof(u32),
[NLA_U64] = sizeof(u64),
[NLA_MSECS] = sizeof(u64),
[NLA_NESTED] = NLA_HDRLEN,
};

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