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From d2a286714f136404d05c8981a2e0820c1dd6e0a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 16:07:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] resolved: simplify alloc size calculation

The allocation size was calculated in a complicated way, and for values
close to the page size we would actually allocate less than requested.

Reported by Chris Coulson <chris.coulson@canonical.com>.

CVE-2017-9445
---
 src/resolve/resolved-dns-packet.c | 8 +-------
 src/resolve/resolved-dns-packet.h | 2 --
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/resolve/resolved-dns-packet.c b/src/resolve/resolved-dns-packet.c
index 240ee448f4..821b66e266 100644
--- a/src/resolve/resolved-dns-packet.c
+++ b/src/resolve/resolved-dns-packet.c
@@ -47,13 +47,7 @@ int dns_packet_new(DnsPacket **ret, DnsProtocol protocol, size_t mtu) {
 
         assert(ret);
 
-        if (mtu <= UDP_PACKET_HEADER_SIZE)
-                a = DNS_PACKET_SIZE_START;
-        else
-                a = mtu - UDP_PACKET_HEADER_SIZE;
-
-        if (a < DNS_PACKET_HEADER_SIZE)
-                a = DNS_PACKET_HEADER_SIZE;
+        a = MAX(mtu, DNS_PACKET_HEADER_SIZE);
 
         /* round up to next page size */
         a = PAGE_ALIGN(ALIGN(sizeof(DnsPacket)) + a) - ALIGN(sizeof(DnsPacket));
diff --git a/src/resolve/resolved-dns-packet.h b/src/resolve/resolved-dns-packet.h
index 2c92392e4d..3abcaf8cf3 100644
--- a/src/resolve/resolved-dns-packet.h
+++ b/src/resolve/resolved-dns-packet.h
@@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ struct DnsPacketHeader {
 /* With EDNS0 we can use larger packets, default to 4096, which is what is commonly used */
 #define DNS_PACKET_UNICAST_SIZE_LARGE_MAX 4096
 
-#define DNS_PACKET_SIZE_START 512
-
 struct DnsPacket {
         int n_ref;
         DnsProtocol protocol;
-- 
2.13.0