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rtnetlink: allocate more memory for dev_set_mac_address()
authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:27:57 +0000 (11:27 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:33:56 +0000 (08:33 -0700)
commit747635d31fcc740eb4f32412bb66a821584ba699
tree8822e6795e78eb4f6e83a25c107d032a01394f60
parentfff61731243f6bb04005352b5723c0c74bb4fa9d
rtnetlink: allocate more memory for dev_set_mac_address()

[ Upstream commit 153711f9421be5dbc973dc57a4109dc9d54c89b1 ]

virtnet_set_mac_address() interprets mac address as struct
sockaddr, but upper layer only allocates dev->addr_len
which is ETH_ALEN + sizeof(sa_family_t) in this case.

We lack a unified definition for mac address, so just fix
the upper layer, this also allows drivers to interpret it
to struct sockaddr freely.

Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/core/rtnetlink.c