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netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp

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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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Pablo Neira 2014-04-01 19:38:44 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 0f11c2a166
commit 5c4f2fdaf6
1 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -303,9 +303,15 @@ int nla_memcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const void *data,
*/
int nla_strcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const char *str)
{
int len = strlen(str) + 1;
int d = nla_len(nla) - len;
int len = strlen(str);
char *buf = nla_data(nla);
int attrlen = nla_len(nla);
int d;
if (attrlen > 0 && buf[attrlen - 1] == '\0')
attrlen--;
d = attrlen - len;
if (d == 0)
d = memcmp(nla_data(nla), str, len);