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Commit 95a69ada authored by Tomas Hozza's avatar Tomas Hozza Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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tools: hv: Netlink source address validation allows DoS



The source code without this patch caused hypervkvpd to exit when it processed
a spoofed Netlink packet which has been sent from an untrusted local user.
Now Netlink messages with a non-zero nl_pid source address are ignored
and a warning is printed into the syslog.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent aeba4a06
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