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    netlink: make validation more configurable for future strictness · 8cb08174
    Johannes Berg authored
    
    
    We currently have two levels of strict validation:
    
     1) liberal (default)
         - undefined (type >= max) & NLA_UNSPEC attributes accepted
         - attribute length >= expected accepted
         - garbage at end of message accepted
     2) strict (opt-in)
         - NLA_UNSPEC attributes accepted
         - attribute length >= expected accepted
    
    Split out parsing strictness into four different options:
     * TRAILING     - check that there's no trailing data after parsing
                      attributes (in message or nested)
     * MAXTYPE      - reject attrs > max known type
     * UNSPEC       - reject attributes with NLA_UNSPEC policy entries
     * STRICT_ATTRS - strictly validate attribute size
    
    The default for future things should be *everything*.
    The current *_strict() is a combination of TRAILING and MAXTYPE,
    and is renamed to _deprecated_strict().
    The current regular parsing has none of this, and is renamed to
    *_parse_deprecated().
    
    Additionally it allows us to selectively set one of the new flags
    even on old policies. Notably, the UNSPEC flag could be useful in
    this case, since it can be arranged (by filling in the policy) to
    not be an incompatible userspace ABI change, but would then going
    forward prevent forgetting attribute entries. Similar can apply
    to the POLICY flag.
    
    We end up with the following renames:
     * nla_parse           -> nla_parse_deprecated
     * nla_parse_strict    -> nla_parse_deprecated_strict
     * nlmsg_parse         -> nlmsg_parse_deprecated
     * nlmsg_parse_strict  -> nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict
     * nla_parse_nested    -> nla_parse_nested_deprecated
     * nla_validate_nested -> nla_validate_nested_deprecated
    
    Using spatch, of course:
        @@
        expression TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT;
        @@
        -nla_parse(TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT)
        +nla_parse_deprecated(TB, MAX, HEAD, LEN, POL, EXT)
    
        @@
        expression NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT;
        @@
        -nlmsg_parse(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)
        +nlmsg_parse_deprecated(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)
    
        @@
        expression NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT;
        @@
        -nlmsg_parse_strict(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)
        +nlmsg_parse_deprecated_strict(NLH, HDRLEN, TB, MAX, POL, EXT)
    
        @@
        expression TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT;
        @@
        -nla_parse_nested(TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT)
        +nla_parse_nested_deprecated(TB, MAX, NLA, POL, EXT)
    
        @@
        expression START, MAX, POL, EXT;
        @@
        -nla_validate_nested(START, MAX, POL, EXT)
        +nla_validate_nested_deprecated(START, MAX, POL, EXT)
    
        @@
        expression NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT;
        @@
        -nlmsg_validate(NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT)
        +nlmsg_validate_deprecated(NLH, HDRLEN, MAX, POL, EXT)
    
    For this patch, don't actually add the strict, non-renamed versions
    yet so that it breaks compile if I get it wrong.
    
    Also, while at it, make nla_validate and nla_parse go down to a
    common __nla_validate_parse() function to avoid code duplication.
    
    Ultimately, this allows us to have very strict validation for every
    new caller of nla_parse()/nlmsg_parse() etc as re-introduced in the
    next patch, while existing things will continue to work as is.
    
    In effect then, this adds fully strict validation for any new command.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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