This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

vti6: better validate user provided tunnel names

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: vti6-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 23:20:08 CEST 2018

From: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 06:39:31 -0700 Subject: vti6: better validate user provided tunnel names

From: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com

[ Upstream commit 537b361fbcbcc3cd6fe2bb47069fd292b9256d16 ]

Use valid_name() to make sure user does not provide illegal device name.

Fixes: ed1efb2aefbb ("ipv6: Add support for IPsec virtual tunnel interfaces") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Cc: Steffen Klassert steffen.klassert@secunet.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c @@ -212,10 +212,13 @@ static struct ip6_tnl *vti6_tnl_create(s char name[IFNAMSIZ]; int err;

- if (p->name[0]) + if (p->name[0]) { + if (!dev_valid_name(p->name)) + goto failed; strlcpy(name, p->name, IFNAMSIZ); - else + } else { sprintf(name, "ip6_vti%%d"); + }

dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(*t), name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, vti6_dev_setup); if (!dev)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@google.com are

queue-4.14/sctp-sctp_sockaddr_af-must-check-minimal-addr-length-for-af_inet6.patch queue-4.14/net-fix-possible-out-of-bound-read-in-skb_network_protocol.patch queue-4.14/pptp-remove-a-buggy-dst-release-in-pptp_connect.patch queue-4.14/net-fool-proof-dev_valid_name.patch queue-4.14/ipv6-the-entire-ipv6-header-chain-must-fit-the-first-fragment.patch queue-4.14/vti6-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch queue-4.14/ipv6-sit-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch queue-4.14/ip6_tunnel-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch queue-4.14/sctp-do-not-leak-kernel-memory-to-user-space.patch queue-4.14/ip_tunnel-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch queue-4.14/netlink-make-sure-nladdr-has-correct-size-in-netlink_connect.patch queue-4.14/ip6_gre-better-validate-user-provided-tunnel-names.patch