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authorOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>2013-04-24 07:48:49 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-04-24 09:02:35 -0700
commit5edf5ee42a4dfbc500e9b9531335305d4c81a129 (patch)
treedca40e1504b4ac1e788d53673182d65aea6a1f5e
parenteb8905b8ff4a887901779504d2ede95dc072bb16 (diff)
tools: hv: fix checks for origin of netlink message in hv_vss_daemon
Similar to what commit 95a69adab9acfc3981c504737a2b6578e4d846ef ("tools: hv: Netlink source address validation allows DoS") does in hv_kvp_daemon, improve checks for origin of netlink connector message. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c
index 2a03d0b4e213..dc3eb1e44c8a 100644
--- a/tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c
@@ -186,13 +186,19 @@ int main(void)
len = recvfrom(fd, vss_recv_buffer, sizeof(vss_recv_buffer), 0,
addr_p, &addr_l);
- if (len < 0 || addr.nl_pid) {
+ if (len < 0) {
syslog(LOG_ERR, "recvfrom failed; pid:%u error:%d %s",
addr.nl_pid, errno, strerror(errno));
close(fd);
return -1;
}
+ if (addr.nl_pid) {
+ syslog(LOG_WARNING, "Received packet from untrusted pid:%u",
+ addr.nl_pid);
+ continue;
+ }
+
incoming_msg = (struct nlmsghdr *)vss_recv_buffer;
if (incoming_msg->nlmsg_type != NLMSG_DONE)