net: ppp: fix creating PPP pass and active filters

PATCH New Christoph Schulz 1 participant 1 message Jul 11, 2014

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2014-07-11 07:10 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 net: ppp: fix creating PPP pass and active filters

From: Christoph Schulz <[email protected]>

Commit 568f194e8bd16c353ad50f9ab95d98b20578a39d ("net: ppp: use sk_unattached_filter api") inadvertently changed the logic when setting pass and active PPP filters. The original ppp_ioctl() code handling PPPIOCSPASS and PPPIOCSACTIVE allowed to remove a pass/active filter previously set by using a filter of length zero. However, with the new code this is not possible anymore as this case is not explicitly checked for, which leads to passing NULL as a filter to sk_unattached_filter_create(). This results in returning EINVAL to the caller. Additionally, ppp->pass_filter and ppp->active_filter are not reset by sk_unattached_filter_create() in this EINVAL case, so dangling pointers may be left behind. This patch corrects both problems by checking whether the filter passed is empty or not, and so prevents sk_unattached_filter_create() from being called for empty filters.

This error is found in exactly the same way in the isdn4linux PPP driver, so it is fixed there the same way.

Signed-off-by Christoph Schulz <[email protected]>

---

drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c +16 -4

index 61ac632..cd2f4c3 100644
@@ -644,9 +644,15 @@ isdn_ppp_ioctl(int min, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		fprog.len = len;
 		fprog.filter = code;
 
-		if (is->pass_filter)
+		if (is->pass_filter) {
 			sk_unattached_filter_destroy(is->pass_filter);
-		err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->pass_filter, &fprog);
+			is->pass_filter = NULL;
+		}
+		if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+			err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->pass_filter,
+							  &fprog);
+		else
+			err = 0;
 		kfree(code);
 
 		return err;

@@ -663,9 +669,15 @@ isdn_ppp_ioctl(int min, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		fprog.len = len;
 		fprog.filter = code;
 
-		if (is->active_filter)
+		if (is->active_filter) {
 			sk_unattached_filter_destroy(is->active_filter);
-		err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->active_filter, &fprog);
+			is->active_filter = NULL;
+		}
+		if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+			err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->active_filter,
+							  &fprog);
+		else
+			err = 0;
 		kfree(code);
 
 		return err;

drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +16 -6

index 91d6c12..d0f6f93 100644
@@ -763,10 +763,15 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 			};
 
 			ppp_lock(ppp);
-			if (ppp->pass_filter)
+			if (ppp->pass_filter) {
 				sk_unattached_filter_destroy(ppp->pass_filter);
-			err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->pass_filter,
-							  &fprog);
+				ppp->pass_filter = NULL;
+			}
+			if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+				err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->pass_filter,
+								  &fprog);
+			else
+				err = 0;
 			kfree(code);
 			ppp_unlock(ppp);
 		}

@@ -784,10 +789,15 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 			};
 
 			ppp_lock(ppp);
-			if (ppp->active_filter)
+			if (ppp->active_filter) {
 				sk_unattached_filter_destroy(ppp->active_filter);
-			err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->active_filter,
-							  &fprog);
+				ppp->active_filter = NULL;
+			}
+			if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+				err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->active_filter,
+								  &fprog);
+			else
+				err = 0;
 			kfree(code);
 			ppp_unlock(ppp);
 		}