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Commit 55cef78c authored by Lin Ma's avatar Lin Ma Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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macvlan: add forgotten nla_policy for IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF



The previous commit 954d1fa1 ("macvlan: Add netlink attribute for
broadcast cutoff") added one additional attribute named
IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF to allow broadcast cutfoff.

However, it forgot to describe the nla_policy at macvlan_policy
(drivers/net/macvlan.c). Hence, this suppose NLA_S32 (4 bytes) integer
can be faked as empty (0 bytes) by a malicious user, which could leads
to OOB in heap just like CVE-2023-3773.

To fix it, this commit just completes the nla_policy description for
IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_CUTOFF. This enforces the length check and avoids the
potential OOB read.

Fixes: 954d1fa1 ("macvlan: Add netlink attribute for broadcast cutoff")
Signed-off-by: default avatarLin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSimon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230723080205.3715164-1-linma@zju.edu.cn


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 284779db
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