From: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Cc: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>,
Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v3 1/2] net: ethtool: reject an out of range hwtstamp provider index
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:52:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260925135237.3432266-2-nb@tipi-net.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260925135237.3432266-1-nb@tipi-net.de>
A provider index of 0xFFFFFFFF picks a provider on hardware that has
none. phc_index is an int where -1 means no PHC, and the u32 from user
space ends up as -1, so the two match.
TSINFO_GET uses -1 for "no provider requested" and answers with the
default provider instead of an error.
Reject the value in the netlink policy, which covers every comparison
site.
Fixes: b9e3f7dc9ed9 ("net: ethtool: tsinfo: Enhance tsinfo to support several hwtstamp by net topology")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
---
NLA_POLICY_MAX does not fit here, .max in struct nla_policy is s16.
net/ethtool/ts.h | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ethtool/ts.h b/net/ethtool/ts.h
index d901a879a671..ab9805308353 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/ts.h
+++ b/net/ethtool/ts.h
@@ -5,9 +5,15 @@
#include "netlink.h"
+/* phc_index is an int and -1 means no PHC, so keep the request non-negative */
+static const struct netlink_range_validation ethnl_ts_prov_index_range = {
+ .max = INT_MAX,
+};
+
static const struct nla_policy
ethnl_ts_hwtst_prov_policy[ETHTOOL_A_TS_HWTSTAMP_PROVIDER_MAX + 1] = {
- [ETHTOOL_A_TS_HWTSTAMP_PROVIDER_INDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
+ [ETHTOOL_A_TS_HWTSTAMP_PROVIDER_INDEX] =
+ NLA_POLICY_FULL_RANGE(NLA_U32, ðnl_ts_prov_index_range),
[ETHTOOL_A_TS_HWTSTAMP_PROVIDER_QUALIFIER] =
NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U32, HWTSTAMP_PROVIDER_QUALIFIER_CNT - 1)
};
base-commit: 11536ee3d3e0b1bd35b6f3f8df55a6053eb0c71d
--
2.53.0
next parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-25 13:53 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-25 13:52 ` Nicolai Buchwitz [this message]
2026-09-25 13:55 ` Kory Maincent
2026-09-25 14:07 ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-09-25 13:52 ` [PATCH net v3 2/2] net: ethtool: let tsconfig reach a PHY-only timestamp provider Nicolai Buchwitz
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