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Kaike Wan authored
The rdma netlink local service registers a handler to handle RESOLVE response and another handler to handle SET_TIMEOUT request. The first thing these handlers do is to call netlink_capable() to check the access right of the received skb to make sure that the sender has root access. Under normal conditions, such responses and requests will be directly forwarded to the handlers without going through the netlink_dump pathway (see ibnl_rcv_msg() in drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c). However, a user application could send a RESOLVE request (not response) to the local service, which will fall into the netlink_dump pathway, where a new skb will be created without initializing the control block. This new skb will be eventually forwarded to the local service RESOLVE response handler. Unfortunately, netlink_capable() will cause general protection fault if the skb's control block is not initialized. This patch will address the problem by checking the skb first. Signed-off-by:
Kaike Wan <kaike.wan@intel.com> Reported-by:
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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