linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.1-rc3/3.0.3] sendmmsg/sendmsg: fix unsafe user pointer access

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Date:	Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:45:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dgoulet@...ke.net,
	penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp, anton@...ba.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.1-rc3/3.0.3] sendmmsg/sendmsg: fix unsafe user
 pointer access

From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:39:40 -0400

> Dereferencing a user pointer directly from kernel-space without going
> through the copy_from_user family of functions is a bad idea. Two of
> such usages can be found in the sendmsg code path called from sendmmsg,
> added by
> 
> commit c71d8ebe7a4496fb7231151cb70a6baa0cb56f9a upstream.
> commit 5b47b8038f183b44d2d8ff1c7d11a5c1be706b34 in the 3.0-stable tree.
> 
> Usages are performed through memcmp() and memcpy() directly. Fix those
> by using the already copied msg_sys structure instead of the __user *msg
> structure. Note that msg_sys can be set to NULL by verify_compat_iovec()
> or verify_iovec(), which requires additional NULL pointer checks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@...ke.net>
> CC: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> CC: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
> CC: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> CC: stable <stable@...nel.org>

Applied, thanks.
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