netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp
authorPablo Neira <pablo@netfilter.org>
Tue, 1 Apr 2014 17:38:44 +0000 (19:38 +0200)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Mon, 19 May 2014 05:54:17 +0000 (07:54 +0200)
commit4f89fd9ae4e7bb3f8268c742c7d35d267d3c10a2
treef685fcb6c2a908cd1b72ffd0acd18ee7ecf433ef
parenta452ae0af4da31194e70c76b070bc60a31b985c6
netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp

[ Upstream commit 8b7b932434f5eee495b91a2804f5b64ebb2bc835 ]

nla_strcmp compares the string length plus one, so it's implicitly
including the nul-termination in the comparison.

 int nla_strcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const char *str)
 {
        int len = strlen(str) + 1;
        ...
                d = memcmp(nla_data(nla), str, len);

However, if NLA_STRING is used, userspace can send us a string without
the nul-termination. This is a problem since the string
comparison will not match as the last byte may be not the
nul-termination.

Fix this by skipping the comparison of the nul-termination if the
attribute data is nul-terminated. Suggested by Thomas Graf.

Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
lib/nlattr.c