netlink: add validation of NLA_F_NESTED flag
Add new validation flag NL_VALIDATE_NESTED which adds three consistency
checks of NLA_F_NESTED_FLAG:
- the flag is set on attributes with NLA_NESTED{,_ARRAY} policy
- the flag is not set on attributes with other policies except NLA_UNSPEC
- the flag is set on attribute passed to nla_parse_nested()
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
v2: change error messages to mention NLA_F_NESTED explicitly
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index adc919b..cace9b3 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -184,6 +184,21 @@ static int validate_nla(const struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype,
}
}
+ if (validate & NL_VALIDATE_NESTED) {
+ if ((pt->type == NLA_NESTED || pt->type == NLA_NESTED_ARRAY) &&
+ !(nla->nla_type & NLA_F_NESTED)) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, nla,
+ "NLA_F_NESTED is missing");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ if (pt->type != NLA_NESTED && pt->type != NLA_NESTED_ARRAY &&
+ pt->type != NLA_UNSPEC && (nla->nla_type & NLA_F_NESTED)) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR(extack, nla,
+ "NLA_F_NESTED not expected");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ }
+
switch (pt->type) {
case NLA_EXACT_LEN:
if (attrlen != pt->len)