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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-10-28 00:25:53 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-10-10 23:00:44 +0300
commit1a6e2da05f379dd465a6be40ee44567824d2b292 (patch)
treed6d4eeb521b2b8caa276858f349b5263cfda90e8 /include/uapi
parent220f0f866d694b7765e03a70d4457ccd0c1bbe7c (diff)
downloadlinux-1a6e2da05f379dd465a6be40ee44567824d2b292.tar.xz
netlink: split up copies in the ack construction
[ Upstream commit 738136a0e3757a8534df3ad97d6ff6d7f429f6c1 ] Clean up the use of unsafe_memcpy() by adding a flexible array at the end of netlink message header and splitting up the header and data copies. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Stable-dep-of: d0f95894fda7 ("netlink: annotate data-races around sk->sk_err") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/netlink.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
index e2ae82e3f9f7..5da0da59bf01 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct sockaddr_nl {
* @nlmsg_flags: Additional flags
* @nlmsg_seq: Sequence number
* @nlmsg_pid: Sending process port ID
+ * @nlmsg_data: Message payload
*/
struct nlmsghdr {
__u32 nlmsg_len;
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ struct nlmsghdr {
__u16 nlmsg_flags;
__u32 nlmsg_seq;
__u32 nlmsg_pid;
+ __u8 nlmsg_data[];
};
/* Flags values */