From 88906f55954131ed2d3974e044b7fb48129b86ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Chaudron Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 10:08:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] openvswitch: Stricter validation for the userspace action This change enhances the robustness of validate_userspace() by ensuring that all Netlink attributes are fully contained within the parent attribute. The previous use of nla_parse_nested_deprecated() could silently skip trailing or malformed attributes, as it stops parsing at the first invalid entry. By switching to nla_parse_deprecated_strict(), we make sure only fully validated attributes are copied for later use. Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Acked-by: Ilya Maximets Link: https://patch.msgid.link/67eb414e2d250e8408bb8afeb982deca2ff2b10b.1747037304.git.echaudro@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c index 518be23e48ea..ad64bb9ab5e2 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c @@ -3049,7 +3049,8 @@ static int validate_userspace(const struct nlattr *attr) struct nlattr *a[OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_MAX + 1]; int error; - error = nla_parse_nested_deprecated(a, OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_MAX, attr, + error = nla_parse_deprecated_strict(a, OVS_USERSPACE_ATTR_MAX, + nla_data(attr), nla_len(attr), userspace_policy, NULL); if (error) return error; -- 2.50.1