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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2025-03-06 13:01:27 -0800
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2025-03-06 13:03:35 -0800
commit2525e16a2bae322641fd745412f3524d4455d8df (patch)
treeb1b2646362b8cc89fe3cf4eece698810fbb05c55 /drivers/net/ppp
parentf1078ab18818542a90e59be420448bd8034bc332 (diff)
parentf315296c92fd4b7716bdea17f727ab431891dc3b (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR (net-6.14-rc6). Conflicts: net/ethtool/cabletest.c 2bcf4772e45a ("net: ethtool: try to protect all callback with netdev instance lock") 637399bf7e77 ("net: ethtool: netlink: Allow NULL nlattrs when getting a phy_device") No Adjacent changes. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ppp')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c28
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
index 815108c98b78..ca77661688c0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -72,6 +72,17 @@
#define PPP_PROTO_LEN 2
#define PPP_LCP_HDRLEN 4
+/* The filter instructions generated by libpcap are constructed
+ * assuming a four-byte PPP header on each packet, where the last
+ * 2 bytes are the protocol field defined in the RFC and the first
+ * byte of the first 2 bytes indicates the direction.
+ * The second byte is currently unused, but we still need to initialize
+ * it to prevent crafted BPF programs from reading them which would
+ * cause reading of uninitialized data.
+ */
+#define PPP_FILTER_OUTBOUND_TAG 0x0100
+#define PPP_FILTER_INBOUND_TAG 0x0000
+
/*
* An instance of /dev/ppp can be associated with either a ppp
* interface unit or a ppp channel. In both cases, file->private_data
@@ -1765,10 +1776,10 @@ ppp_send_frame(struct ppp *ppp, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (proto < 0x8000) {
#ifdef CONFIG_PPP_FILTER
- /* check if we should pass this packet */
- /* the filter instructions are constructed assuming
- a four-byte PPP header on each packet */
- *(u8 *)skb_push(skb, 2) = 1;
+ /* check if the packet passes the pass and active filters.
+ * See comment for PPP_FILTER_OUTBOUND_TAG above.
+ */
+ *(__be16 *)skb_push(skb, 2) = htons(PPP_FILTER_OUTBOUND_TAG);
if (ppp->pass_filter &&
bpf_prog_run(ppp->pass_filter, skb) == 0) {
if (ppp->debug & 1)
@@ -2485,14 +2496,13 @@ ppp_receive_nonmp_frame(struct ppp *ppp, struct sk_buff *skb)
/* network protocol frame - give it to the kernel */
#ifdef CONFIG_PPP_FILTER
- /* check if the packet passes the pass and active filters */
- /* the filter instructions are constructed assuming
- a four-byte PPP header on each packet */
if (ppp->pass_filter || ppp->active_filter) {
if (skb_unclone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC))
goto err;
-
- *(u8 *)skb_push(skb, 2) = 0;
+ /* Check if the packet passes the pass and active filters.
+ * See comment for PPP_FILTER_INBOUND_TAG above.
+ */
+ *(__be16 *)skb_push(skb, 2) = htons(PPP_FILTER_INBOUND_TAG);
if (ppp->pass_filter &&
bpf_prog_run(ppp->pass_filter, skb) == 0) {
if (ppp->debug & 1)