Commit 
568f194e8bd16c353ad50f9ab95d98b20578a39d ("net: ppp: use
sk_unattached_filter api") inadvertently changed the logic when setting
PPP pass and active filters. This applies to both the generic PPP subsystem
implemented by drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c and the ISDN PPP subsystem
implemented by drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c. The original code in ppp_ioctl()
(or isdn_ppp_ioctl(), resp.) handling PPPIOCSPASS and PPPIOCSACTIVE allowed to
remove a pass/active filter previously set by using a filter of length zero.
However, with the new code this is not possible anymore as this case is not
explicitly checked for, which leads to passing NULL as a filter to
sk_unattached_filter_create(). This results in returning EINVAL to the caller.
Additionally, the variables ppp->pass_filter and ppp->active_filter (or
is->pass_filter and is->active_filter, resp.) are not reset to NULL, although
the filters they point to may have been destroyed by
sk_unattached_filter_destroy(), so in this EINVAL case dangling pointers are
left behind (provided the pointers were previously non-NULL).
This patch corrects both problems by checking whether the filter passed is
empty or non-empty, and prevents sk_unattached_filter_create() from being
called in the first case. Moreover, the pointers are always reset to NULL
as soon as sk_unattached_filter_destroy() returns.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Schulz <develop@kristov.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
                fprog.len = len;
                fprog.filter = code;
 
-               if (is->pass_filter)
+               if (is->pass_filter) {
                        sk_unattached_filter_destroy(is->pass_filter);
-               err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->pass_filter, &fprog);
+                       is->pass_filter = NULL;
+               }
+               if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+                       err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->pass_filter,
+                                                         &fprog);
+               else
+                       err = 0;
                kfree(code);
 
                return err;
                fprog.len = len;
                fprog.filter = code;
 
-               if (is->active_filter)
+               if (is->active_filter) {
                        sk_unattached_filter_destroy(is->active_filter);
-               err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->active_filter, &fprog);
+                       is->active_filter = NULL;
+               }
+               if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+                       err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&is->active_filter,
+                                                         &fprog);
+               else
+                       err = 0;
                kfree(code);
 
                return err;
 
                        };
 
                        ppp_lock(ppp);
-                       if (ppp->pass_filter)
+                       if (ppp->pass_filter) {
                                sk_unattached_filter_destroy(ppp->pass_filter);
-                       err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->pass_filter,
-                                                         &fprog);
+                               ppp->pass_filter = NULL;
+                       }
+                       if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+                               err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->pass_filter,
+                                                                 &fprog);
+                       else
+                               err = 0;
                        kfree(code);
                        ppp_unlock(ppp);
                }
                        };
 
                        ppp_lock(ppp);
-                       if (ppp->active_filter)
+                       if (ppp->active_filter) {
                                sk_unattached_filter_destroy(ppp->active_filter);
-                       err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->active_filter,
-                                                         &fprog);
+                               ppp->active_filter = NULL;
+                       }
+                       if (fprog.filter != NULL)
+                               err = sk_unattached_filter_create(&ppp->active_filter,
+                                                                 &fprog);
+                       else
+                               err = 0;
                        kfree(code);
                        ppp_unlock(ppp);
                }