rtnetlink: Mask the rta_type when range checking

Range/validity checks on rta_type in rtnetlink_rcv_msg() do
not account for flags that may be set.  This causes the function
to return -EINVAL when flags are set on the type (for example
NLA_F_NESTED).

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index a585d45cc9d9..5fb8d7e47294 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -2621,7 +2621,7 @@ static int rtnetlink_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
                 struct rtattr *attr = (void *)nlh + NLMSG_ALIGN(min_len);
 
                 while (RTA_OK(attr, attrlen)) {
-                        unsigned int flavor = attr->rta_type;
+                        unsigned int flavor = attr->rta_type & NLA_TYPE_MASK;
                         if (flavor) {
                                 if (flavor > rta_max[sz_idx])
                                         return -EINVAL;