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netlink: reset extack earlier in netlink_rcv_skb
authorXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 06:48:03 +0000 (14:48 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:14:51 +0000 (15:14 -0500)
Move up the extack reset/initialization in netlink_rcv_skb, so that
those 'goto ack' will not skip it. Otherwise, later on netlink_ack
may use the uninitialized extack and cause kernel crash.

Fixes: cbbdf8433a5f ("netlink: extack needs to be reset each time through loop")
Reported-by: syzbot+03bee3680a37466775e7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/netlink/af_netlink.c

index 47ef2d8683d6cfd87627d5b3b4efa4426eb56784..84a4e4c3be4b9738ed9277a09d217327137588f8 100644 (file)
@@ -2391,6 +2391,7 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
        while (skb->len >= nlmsg_total_size(0)) {
                int msglen;
 
+               memset(&extack, 0, sizeof(extack));
                nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
                err = 0;
 
@@ -2405,7 +2406,6 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
                if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
                        goto ack;
 
-               memset(&extack, 0, sizeof(extack));
                err = cb(skb, nlh, &extack);
                if (err == -EINTR)
                        goto skip;