[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "netfilter: ipset: small potential read beyond the end of buffer" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    netfilter: ipset: small potential read beyond the end of buffer

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 1ac43826bf324ba9835fc19df900c40e6a712935 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:11:21 +0100
Subject: netfilter: ipset: small potential read beyond the end of buffer

commit 2196937e12b1b4ba139806d132647e1651d655df upstream.

We could be reading 8 bytes into a 4 byte buffer here.  It seems
harmless but adding a check is the right thing to do and it silences a
static checker warning.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec at blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
index 6582dce828b5..6850c3c4d6d3 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
@@ -1838,6 +1838,12 @@ ip_set_sockfn_get(struct sock *sk, int optval, void __user *user, int *len)
 	if (*op < IP_SET_OP_VERSION) {
 		/* Check the version at the beginning of operations */
 		struct ip_set_req_version *req_version = data;
+
+		if (*len < sizeof(struct ip_set_req_version)) {
+			ret = -EINVAL;
+			goto done;
+		}
+
 		if (req_version->version != IPSET_PROTOCOL) {
 			ret = -EPROTO;
 			goto done;
--
2.1.4