tipc: Fix skb_under_panic when configuring TIPC without privileges

This patch prevents a TIPC configuration command requiring network
administrator privileges from triggering an skbuff underrun if it
is issued by a process lacking those privileges.  The revised error
handling code avoids the use of a potentially uninitialized global
variable by transforming the unauthorized command into a new command,
then following the standard command processing path to generate the
required error message.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink.c b/net/tipc/netlink.c
index 6a7f7b4c2595..c387217bb230 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  * net/tipc/netlink.c: TIPC configuration handling
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2005-2006, Ericsson AB
- * Copyright (c) 2005, Wind River Systems
+ * Copyright (c) 2005-2007, Wind River Systems
  * All rights reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -45,15 +45,17 @@ static int handle_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
         struct nlmsghdr *req_nlh = info->nlhdr;
         struct tipc_genlmsghdr *req_userhdr = info->userhdr;
         int hdr_space = NLMSG_SPACE(GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN);
+        u16 cmd;
 
         if ((req_userhdr->cmd & 0xC000) && (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)))
-                rep_buf = tipc_cfg_reply_error_string(TIPC_CFG_NOT_NET_ADMIN);
+                cmd = TIPC_CMD_NOT_NET_ADMIN;
         else
-                rep_buf = tipc_cfg_do_cmd(req_userhdr->dest,
-                                          req_userhdr->cmd,
-                                          NLMSG_DATA(req_nlh) + GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN,
-                                          NLMSG_PAYLOAD(req_nlh, GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN),
-                                          hdr_space);
+                cmd = req_userhdr->cmd;
+
+        rep_buf = tipc_cfg_do_cmd(req_userhdr->dest, cmd,
+                        NLMSG_DATA(req_nlh) + GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN,
+                        NLMSG_PAYLOAD(req_nlh, GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN),
+                        hdr_space);
 
         if (rep_buf) {
                 skb_push(rep_buf, hdr_space);