File 0001-sd-rtnl-message-append-fix-uninitialized-memory.patch of Package systemd.1059

Backport of 7ca1d31964a2553f7bd011bc10ac42e0ebc1f975 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 22:29:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] sd-rtnl-message: append - fix uninitialized memory

We were not properly clearing the padding at the front of some containers.
---
 src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c
+++ src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c	2014-05-05 13:33:01.998235340 +0000
@@ -314,24 +314,28 @@ int sd_rtnl_message_link_get_flags(sd_rt
 /* If successful the updated message will be correctly aligned, if
    unsuccessful the old message is untouched. */
 static int add_rtattr(sd_rtnl_message *m, unsigned short type, const void *data, size_t data_length) {
-        uint32_t rta_length, message_length;
+        uint32_t rta_length;
+        size_t message_length, padding_length;
         struct nlmsghdr *new_hdr;
         struct rtattr *rta;
         char *padding;
         unsigned i;
+        int offset;
 
         assert(m);
         assert(m->hdr);
         assert(!m->sealed);
         assert(NLMSG_ALIGN(m->hdr->nlmsg_len) == m->hdr->nlmsg_len);
-        assert(!data || data_length > 0);
-        assert(data || m->n_containers < RTNL_CONTAINER_DEPTH);
+        assert(!data || data_length);
+
+        /* get offset of the new attribute */
+        offset = m->hdr->nlmsg_len;
 
         /* get the size of the new rta attribute (with padding at the end) */
         rta_length = RTA_LENGTH(data_length);
 
         /* get the new message size (with padding at the end) */
-        message_length = m->hdr->nlmsg_len + RTA_ALIGN(rta_length);
+        message_length = offset + RTA_ALIGN(rta_length);
 
         /* realloc to fit the new attribute */
         new_hdr = realloc(m->hdr, message_length);
@@ -340,32 +344,35 @@ static int add_rtattr(sd_rtnl_message *m
         m->hdr = new_hdr;
 
         /* get pointer to the attribute we are about to add */
-        rta = (struct rtattr *) ((uint8_t *) m->hdr + m->hdr->nlmsg_len);
+        rta = (struct rtattr *) ((uint8_t *) m->hdr + offset);
 
         /* if we are inside containers, extend them */
         for (i = 0; i < m->n_containers; i++)
-                GET_CONTAINER(m, i)->rta_len += message_length - m->hdr->nlmsg_len;
+                GET_CONTAINER(m, i)->rta_len += message_length - offset;
 
         /* fill in the attribute */
         rta->rta_type = type;
         rta->rta_len = rta_length;
-        if (!data) {
-                /* this is the start of a new container */
-                m->container_offsets[m->n_containers ++] = m->hdr->nlmsg_len;
-        } else {
+        if (data)
                 /* we don't deal with the case where the user lies about the type
                  * and gives us too little data (so don't do that)
-                */
+                 */
                 padding = mempcpy(RTA_DATA(rta), data, data_length);
-                /* make sure also the padding at the end of the message is initialized */
-                memzero(padding,
-                        (uint8_t *) m->hdr + message_length - (uint8_t *) padding);
+        else {
+                /* if no data was passed, make sure we still initialize the padding
+                   note that we can have data_length > 0 (used by some containers) */
+                padding = RTA_DATA(rta);
+                data_length = 0;
         }
 
+        /* make sure also the padding at the end of the message is initialized */
+        padding_length = (uint8_t*)m->hdr + message_length - (uint8_t*)padding;
+        memzero(padding, padding_length);
+
         /* update message size */
         m->hdr->nlmsg_len = message_length;
 
-        return 0;
+        return offset;
 }
 
 int sd_rtnl_message_append_string(sd_rtnl_message *m, unsigned short type, const char *data) {
@@ -498,6 +505,7 @@ int sd_rtnl_message_append_u32(sd_rtnl_m
 
         assert_return(m, -EINVAL);
         assert_return(!m->sealed, -EPERM);
+        assert_return(m->n_containers < RTNL_CONTAINER_DEPTH, -ERANGE);
 
         r = sd_rtnl_message_get_type(m, &rtm_type);
         if (r < 0)
@@ -548,6 +556,10 @@ int sd_rtnl_message_append_u32(sd_rtnl_m
         if (r < 0)
                 return r;
 
+        m->container_offsets[m->n_containers ++] = r;
+
+        m->container_offsets[m->n_containers ++] = r;
+
         return 0;
 }