[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/3] openvswitch: Add length check when retrieving TCP flags.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Tue May 8 01:51:23 UTC 2012


When collecting TCP flags we check that the IP header indicates that
a TCP header is present but not that the packet is actually long
enough to contain the header.  This adds a check to prevent reading
off the end of the packet.

In practice, this is only likely to result in reading of bad data and
not a crash due to the presence of struct skb_shared_info at the end
of the packet.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
---
 net/openvswitch/flow.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow.c b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
index 1252c30..2a11ec2 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ void ovs_flow_used(struct sw_flow *flow, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	u8 tcp_flags = 0;
 
 	if (flow->key.eth.type == htons(ETH_P_IP) &&
-	    flow->key.ip.proto == IPPROTO_TCP) {
+	    flow->key.ip.proto == IPPROTO_TCP &&
+	    likely(skb->len >= skb_transport_offset(skb) + sizeof(struct tcphdr))) {
 		u8 *tcp = (u8 *)tcp_hdr(skb);
 		tcp_flags = *(tcp + TCP_FLAGS_OFFSET) & TCP_FLAG_MASK;
 	}
-- 
1.7.9.5




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