Vulnerability CVE-2021-47159
Published: 2024-03-25

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: dsa: fix a crash if ->get_sset_count() fails

If ds->ops->get_sset_count() fails then it "count" is a negative error
code such as -EOPNOTSUPP. Because "i" is an unsigned int, the negative
error code is type promoted to a very high value and the loop will
corrupt memory until the system crashes.

Fix this by checking for error codes and changing the type of "i" to
just int.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f2cb08c57edefb0e7b5045e0e3e9980a3d3aa37
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce5355f140a7987011388c7e30c4f8fbe180d3e8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caff86f85512b8e0d9830e8b8b0dfe13c68ce5b6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b22466648a4f8e3e94f57ca428d1531866d1373
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a269333fa5c0c8e53c92b5a28a6076a28cde3e83
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