releases/2.6.17.11/fix-ifla_address-handling.patch

From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Wed Aug  9 02:33:59 2006
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:33:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20060809.023328.08324505.davem@davemloft.net>
To: stable@kernel.org
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Fix IFLA_ADDRESS handling

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

[RTNETLINK]: Fix IFLA_ADDRESS handling.

The ->set_mac_address handlers expect a pointer to a
sockaddr which contains the MAC address, whereas
IFLA_ADDRESS provides just the MAC address itself.

So whip up a sockaddr to wrap around the netlink
attribute for the ->set_mac_address call.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.17.8.orig/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ linux-2.6.17.8/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -395,6 +395,9 @@ static int do_setlink(struct sk_buff *sk
 	}
 
 	if (ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]) {
+		struct sockaddr *sa;
+		int len;
+
 		if (!dev->set_mac_address) {
 			err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 			goto out;
@@ -406,7 +409,17 @@ static int do_setlink(struct sk_buff *sk
 		if (ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]->rta_len != RTA_LENGTH(dev->addr_len))
 			goto out;
 
-		err = dev->set_mac_address(dev, RTA_DATA(ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]));
+		len = sizeof(sa_family_t) + dev->addr_len;
+		sa = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!sa) {
+			err = -ENOMEM;
+			goto out;
+		}
+		sa->sa_family = dev->type;
+		memcpy(sa->sa_data, RTA_DATA(ida[IFLA_ADDRESS - 1]),
+		       dev->addr_len);
+		err = dev->set_mac_address(dev, sa);
+		kfree(sa);
 		if (err)
 			goto out;
 		send_addr_notify = 1;