net: validate variable length ll headers
authorWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:58:32 +0000 (21:58 -0500)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:07:01 +0000 (23:07 -0400)
commit1df16498dfd0d5a129bdf2982d9a08df73e8923d
tree9cdf290040db4b018dd485363ec2769a5eeaec39
parent58c92f1359c6811478159cfe3cc3118bdb995608
net: validate variable length ll headers

[ Upstream commit 2793a23aacbd754dbbb5cb75093deb7e4103bace ]

Netdevice parameter hard_header_len is variously interpreted both as
an upper and lower bound on link layer header length. The field is
used as upper bound when reserving room at allocation, as lower bound
when validating user input in PF_PACKET.

Clarify the definition to be maximum header length. For validation
of untrusted headers, add an optional validate member to header_ops.

Allow bypassing of validation by passing CAP_SYS_RAWIO, for instance
for deliberate testing of corrupt input. In this case, pad trailing
bytes, as some device drivers expect completely initialized headers.

See also http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/401064

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
include/linux/netdevice.h