From: WANG Cong Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:27:57 +0000 (-0700) Subject: rtnetlink: allocate more memory for dev_set_mac_address() X-Git-Tag: v4.9.42~49 X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cda2bc91baf7b6849733145331726a1364f20512;p=linux rtnetlink: allocate more memory for dev_set_mac_address() [ Upstream commit 153711f9421be5dbc973dc57a4109dc9d54c89b1 ] virtnet_set_mac_address() interprets mac address as struct sockaddr, but upper layer only allocates dev->addr_len which is ETH_ALEN + sizeof(sa_family_t) in this case. We lack a unified definition for mac address, so just fix the upper layer, this also allows drivers to interpret it to struct sockaddr freely. Reported-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 9c6fd7f83a4a..4d2629781e8b 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -1965,7 +1965,8 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb, struct sockaddr *sa; int len; - len = sizeof(sa_family_t) + dev->addr_len; + len = sizeof(sa_family_t) + max_t(size_t, dev->addr_len, + sizeof(*sa)); sa = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!sa) { err = -ENOMEM;