From: Stefan Nuernberger <s...@amazon.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:46:53 +0200
> commit 40413955ee26 ("Cipso: cipso_v4_optptr enter infinite loop") fixed
> a possible infinite loop in the IP option parsing of CIPSO. The fix
> assumes that ip_options_compile filtered out all zero length options and
> that no other one-byte options beside IPOPT_END and IPOPT_NOOP exist.
> While this assumption currently holds true, add explicit checks for zero
> length and invalid length options to be safe for the future. Even though
> ip_options_compile should have validated the options, the introduction of
> new one-byte options can still confuse this code without the additional
> checks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Nuernberger <s...@amazon.com>
Applied to net-next.
This is not 'net' nor -stable material. I'm hesitent about this
change as-is, and ip_options_compile() is not changing semantics in
-stable in the way that you say can cause problems.
