On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 03:08:04PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Commit 36b701fae12ac ("netfilter: nf_tables: validate maximum value of
> u32 netlink attributes") introduced nft_parse_u32_check with a return
> value of "unsigned int", yet on error it returns "-ERANGE".
>
> This patch corrects the mismatch by changing the return value to "int",
> which happens to match the actual users of nft_parse_u32_check already.
>
> Found by Coverity, CID 1373930.
>
> Note that commit 21a9e0f1568ea ("netfilter: nft_exthdr: fix error
> handling in nft_exthdr_init()) attempted to address the issue, but
> did not address the return type of nft_parse_u32_check.
>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
> Cc: Laura Garcia Liebana <[email protected]>
> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
> Fixes: 0eadf37afc250 ("netfilter: nf_tables: validate maximum value...")
The Fixes line is incorrect -- corrected patch to follow!
John
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