From ff62198553e43cdffa9d539f6165d3e83f8a42bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:46:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] bridge: Only call /sbin/bridge-stp for the initial network namespace [I stole this patch from Eric Biederman. He wrote:] > There is no defined mechanism to pass network namespace information > into /sbin/bridge-stp therefore don't even try to invoke it except > for bridge devices in the initial network namespace. > > It is possible for unprivileged users to cause /sbin/bridge-stp to be > invoked for any network device name which if /sbin/bridge-stp does not > guard against unreasonable arguments or being invoked twice on the > same network device could cause problems. [Hannes: changed patch using netns_eq] Cc: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/bridge/br_stp_if.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c index 12045de..8a7ada8 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c @@ -142,7 +142,10 @@ static void br_stp_start(struct net_bridge *br) char *envp[] = { NULL }; struct net_bridge_port *p; - r = call_usermodehelper(BR_STP_PROG, argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_PROC); + if (net_eq(dev_net(br->dev), &init_net)) + r = call_usermodehelper(BR_STP_PROG, argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_PROC); + else + r = -ENOENT; spin_lock_bh(&br->lock); -- 2.7.4