Re: [PATCH net] bridge: mcast: Fix MLD2 Report IPv6 payload length check

From: Linus LÃssing
Date: Sun Jul 05 2020 - 15:09:06 EST


On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 09:33:13PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 05/07/2020 21:22, Linus LÃssing wrote:
> > Commit e57f61858b7c ("net: bridge: mcast: fix stale nsrcs pointer in
> > igmp3/mld2 report handling") introduced a small bug which would potentially
> > lead to accepting an MLD2 Report with a broken IPv6 header payload length
> > field.
> >
> > The check needs to take into account the 2 bytes for the "Number of
> > Sources" field in the "Multicast Address Record" before reading it.
> > And not the size of a pointer to this field.
> >
> > Fixes: e57f61858b7c ("net: bridge: mcast: fix stale nsrcs pointer in igmp3/mld2 report handling")
> > Signed-off-by: Linus LÃssing <linus.luessing@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
>
> I'd rather be more concerned with it rejecting a valid report due to wrong size. The ptr
> size would always be bigger. :)
>
> Thanks!
> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Aiy, you're right, it's the other way round. I'll update the
commit message and send a v2 in a minute, with your Acked-by
included.