[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] odp-utils: Fix memory corruption while flow parsing.

Gurucharan Shetty shettyg at nicira.com
Mon Mar 25 00:03:56 UTC 2013


Currently, when flow attribute type is greater than OVS_KEY_ATTR_MAX,
we can write into a random memory address causing corruption. Fix it.

Bug #15702.
Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>
---
 lib/odp-util.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/odp-util.c b/lib/odp-util.c
index f9e9321..751c1c9 100644
--- a/lib/odp-util.c
+++ b/lib/odp-util.c
@@ -1714,6 +1714,7 @@ parse_flow_nlattrs(const struct nlattr *key, size_t key_len,
     uint64_t present_attrs;
     size_t left;
 
+    BUILD_ASSERT(OVS_KEY_ATTR_MAX < CHAR_BIT * sizeof present_attrs);
     present_attrs = 0;
     *out_of_range_attrp = 0;
     NL_ATTR_FOR_EACH (nla, left, key, key_len) {
@@ -1728,7 +1729,7 @@ parse_flow_nlattrs(const struct nlattr *key, size_t key_len,
             return false;
         }
 
-        if (type >= CHAR_BIT * sizeof present_attrs) {
+        if (type > OVS_KEY_ATTR_MAX) {
             *out_of_range_attrp = type;
         } else {
             if (present_attrs & (UINT64_C(1) << type)) {
-- 
1.7.9.5




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