From 864745d291b5ba80ea0bd0edcbe67273de368836 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathias Krause Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:41:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL When dump_one_state() returns an error, e.g. because of a too small buffer to dump the whole xfrm state, xfrm_state_netlink() returns NULL instead of an error pointer. But its callers expect an error pointer and therefore continue to operate on a NULL skbuff. This could lead to a privilege escalation (execution of user code in kernel context) if the attacker has CAP_NET_ADMIN and is able to map address 0. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Acked-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c index e75d8e47f35c..dac08e2a5a93 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c @@ -878,6 +878,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_state_netlink(struct sk_buff *in_skb, { struct xfrm_dump_info info; struct sk_buff *skb; + int err; skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!skb) @@ -888,9 +889,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_state_netlink(struct sk_buff *in_skb, info.nlmsg_seq = seq; info.nlmsg_flags = 0; - if (dump_one_state(x, 0, &info)) { + err = dump_one_state(x, 0, &info); + if (err) { kfree_skb(skb); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(err); } return skb; -- 2.20.1