From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:19:17 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [IPV6] fix ipv6_getsockopt_sticky copy_to_user leak
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc4~50^2
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2b02ed9487ed25832d19534575052e43f8e0c4f;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

[IPV6] fix ipv6_getsockopt_sticky copy_to_user leak

User supplied len < 0 can cause leak of kernel memory.
Use unsigned compare instead.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
index b82333b9228..f5f9582a8d3 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ static int ipv6_getsockopt_sticky(struct sock *sk, struct ipv6_txoptions *opt,
 		return 0;
 	hdr = opt->hopopt;
 
-	len = min_t(int, len, ipv6_optlen(hdr));
+	len = min_t(unsigned int, len, ipv6_optlen(hdr));
 	if (copy_to_user(optval, hdr, ipv6_optlen(hdr)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	return len;