ipv6: Check the hop limit setting in ancillary data.

When specifing the outgoing hop limit as ancillary data for sendmsg(),
the kernel doesn't check the integer hop limit value as specified in
[RFC-3542] section 6.3.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/datagram.c b/net/ipv6/datagram.c
index b9c2de84a8a..0f0f94a4033 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/datagram.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/datagram.c
@@ -705,6 +705,11 @@ int datagram_send_ctl(struct net *net,
                         }
 
                         *hlimit = *(int *)CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
+                        if (*hlimit < -1 || *hlimit > 0xff) {
+                                err = -EINVAL;
+                                goto exit_f;
+                        }
+
                         break;
 
                 case IPV6_TCLASS: