net: Check for presence of IFLA_AF_SPEC
authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:42:18 +0000 (13:42 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:29:01 +0000 (15:29 -0500)
ndo_bridge_setlink() is currently only called on the slave if
IFLA_AF_SPEC is set but this is a very fragile assumption and may
change in the future.

Cc: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@emulex.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c

index 337e4cd..597c463 100644 (file)
@@ -4309,6 +4309,8 @@ static int be_ndo_bridge_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
        br_spec = nlmsg_find_attr(nlh, sizeof(struct ifinfomsg), IFLA_AF_SPEC);
+       if (!br_spec)
+               return -EINVAL;
 
        nla_for_each_nested(attr, br_spec, rem) {
                if (nla_type(attr) != IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE)
index dff9905..cc51554 100644 (file)
@@ -7669,6 +7669,8 @@ static int ixgbe_ndo_bridge_setlink(struct net_device *dev,
                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
        br_spec = nlmsg_find_attr(nlh, sizeof(struct ifinfomsg), IFLA_AF_SPEC);
+       if (!br_spec)
+               return -EINVAL;
 
        nla_for_each_nested(attr, br_spec, rem) {
                __u16 mode;