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| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/netlink.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/attr.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h index 1c11518fc82..2e4c90a98a7 100644 --- a/include/net/netlink.h +++ b/include/net/netlink.h @@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ enum { NLA_MSECS, NLA_NESTED, NLA_NUL_STRING, + NLA_BINARY, __NLA_TYPE_MAX, }; @@ -188,12 +189,13 @@ enum { * NLA_STRING Maximum length of string * NLA_NUL_STRING Maximum length of string (excluding NUL) * NLA_FLAG Unused + * NLA_BINARY Maximum length of attribute payload * All other Exact length of attribute payload * * Example: * static struct nla_policy my_policy[ATTR_MAX+1] __read_mostly = { * [ATTR_FOO] = { .type = NLA_U16 }, - * [ATTR_BAR] = { .type = NLA_STRING, len = BARSIZ }, + * [ATTR_BAR] = { .type = NLA_STRING, .len = BARSIZ }, * [ATTR_BAZ] = { .len = sizeof(struct mystruct) }, * }; */ diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/net/netlink/attr.c index 004139557e0..df5f820a4c3 100644 --- a/net/netlink/attr.c +++ b/net/netlink/attr.c @@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ static int validate_nla(struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype, } break; + case NLA_BINARY: + if (pt->len && attrlen > pt->len) + return -ERANGE; + break; + default: if (pt->len) minlen = pt->len; |