tools: hv: Netlink source address validation allows DoS

commit 95a69ad upstream.

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: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c

@@ -393,13 +393,19 @@ int main(void)
 		len = recvfrom(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0,
 				addr_p, &addr_l);
 
-		if (len < 0 || addr.nl_pid) {
+		if (len < 0) {
 			syslog(LOG_ERR, "recvfrom failed; pid:%u error:%d %s",
 					addr.nl_pid, errno, strerror(errno));
 			close(fd);
 			return -1;
 		}
 
+		if (addr.nl_pid) {
+			syslog(LOG_WARNING, "Received packet from untrusted pid:%u",
+					addr.nl_pid);
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		incoming_msg = (struct nlmsghdr *)kvp_recv_buffer;
 		incoming_cn_msg = (struct cn_msg *)NLMSG_DATA(incoming_msg);