From 2363d73a2f3e92787f336721c40918ba2eb0c74c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Kubecek Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:17:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ethtool: reject unrecognized request flags As pointed out by Jakub Kicinski, we ethtool netlink code should respond with an error if request head has flags set which are not recognized by kernel, either as a mistake or because it expects functionality introduced in later kernel versions. To avoid unnecessary roundtrips, use extack cookie to provide the information about supported request flags. Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ethtool/netlink.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.c b/net/ethtool/netlink.c index 180c194fab07..fc9e0b806889 100644 --- a/net/ethtool/netlink.c +++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.c @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ int ethnl_parse_header(struct ethnl_req_info *req_info, struct nlattr *tb[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_MAX + 1]; const struct nlattr *devname_attr; struct net_device *dev = NULL; + u32 flags = 0; int ret; if (!header) { @@ -50,8 +51,17 @@ int ethnl_parse_header(struct ethnl_req_info *req_info, ethnl_header_policy, extack); if (ret < 0) return ret; - devname_attr = tb[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_NAME]; + if (tb[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_FLAGS]) { + flags = nla_get_u32(tb[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_FLAGS]); + if (flags & ~ETHTOOL_FLAG_ALL) { + NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, tb[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_FLAGS], + "unrecognized request flags"); + nl_set_extack_cookie_u32(extack, ETHTOOL_FLAG_ALL); + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + } + } + devname_attr = tb[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_NAME]; if (tb[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_INDEX]) { u32 ifindex = nla_get_u32(tb[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_DEV_INDEX]); @@ -90,9 +100,7 @@ int ethnl_parse_header(struct ethnl_req_info *req_info, } req_info->dev = dev; - if (tb[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_FLAGS]) - req_info->flags = nla_get_u32(tb[ETHTOOL_A_HEADER_FLAGS]); - + req_info->flags = flags; return 0; } -- 2.11.0