From b5505c6e1071b32176c7548a3aaf0be49f7c763e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Herbert Xu Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 02:15:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [IPSEC]: Check validity of direction in xfrm_policy_byid The function xfrm_policy_byid takes a dir argument but finds the policy using the index instead. We only use the dir argument to update the policy count for that direction. Since the user can supply any value for dir, this can corrupt our policy count. I know this is the problem because a few days ago I was deleting policies by hand using indicies and accidentally typed in the wrong direction. It still deleted the policy and at the time I thought that was cool. In retrospect it isn't such a good idea :) I decided against letting it delete the policy anyway just in case we ever remove the connection between indicies and direction. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c index 95271e8426a1..d0882e53b6fc 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c @@ -796,6 +796,10 @@ struct xfrm_policy *xfrm_policy_byid(u8 type, int dir, u32 id, int delete, struct hlist_head *chain; struct hlist_node *entry; + *err = -ENOENT; + if (xfrm_policy_id2dir(id) != dir) + return NULL; + *err = 0; write_lock_bh(&xfrm_policy_lock); chain = xfrm_policy_byidx + idx_hash(id); -- 2.20.1