[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "ax25: add link layer header validation function" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ax25: add link layer header validation function

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt9.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 602307c576e98cb533353db824e0cf99d863c445 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb at google.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 21:58:33 -0500
Subject: ax25: add link layer header validation function

[ Upstream commit ea47781c26510e5d97f80f9aceafe9065bd5e3aa ]

As variable length protocol, AX25 fails link layer header validation
tests based on a minimum length. header_ops.validate allows protocols
to validate headers that are shorter than hard_header_len. Implement
this callback for AX25.

See also http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/401064

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ax25/ax25_ip.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ax25/ax25_ip.c b/net/ax25/ax25_ip.c
index b563a3f..2fa3be9 100644
--- a/net/ax25/ax25_ip.c
+++ b/net/ax25/ax25_ip.c
@@ -228,8 +228,23 @@ netdev_tx_t ax25_ip_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb)
 }
 #endif

+static bool ax25_validate_header(const char *header, unsigned int len)
+{
+	ax25_digi digi;
+
+	if (!len)
+		return false;
+
+	if (header[0])
+		return true;
+
+	return ax25_addr_parse(header + 1, len - 1, NULL, NULL, &digi, NULL,
+			       NULL);
+}
+
 const struct header_ops ax25_header_ops = {
 	.create = ax25_hard_header,
+	.validate = ax25_validate_header,
 };

 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ax25_header_ops);
--
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