From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
To: Sagar Taunk <sagartaunk@proton.me>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
"Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@kernel.org>,
"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
"Onur Özkan" <work@onurozkan.dev>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rust: net: netlink: validate attribute length before casting to `c_int`
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:35:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqu0bzgMAUQe_LZ6@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260915164000.124340-1-sagartaunk@proton.me>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 04:40:10PM +0000, Sagar Taunk wrote:
> `put()` trusted an unchecked `as` cast from `usize` to `c_int`.
> When the length exceeds `i32::MAX` that cast wraps around to a
> negative value.
>
> This ultimately resulted in a kernel panic when the reinterpreted
> value via `__nla_reserve()` and `skb_put()` became enormous.
>
> Validate payload and header both fit together in a `u16`, rejecting
> any payload that wouldn't leave room for `NLA_HDRLEN`.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sagar Taunk <sagartaunk@proton.me>
This should include a Fixes: tag if it leads to a kernel panic.
Can you also update the subject to [PATCH net vX] according to the
guidelines in: Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
The patch itself LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Alice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 16:40 Sagar Taunk
2026-09-17 9:35 ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
2026-09-17 13:45 ` Sagar Taunk
2026-09-17 16:23 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-09-17 17:38 ` Alexandre Courbot
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