linux-kernel - Re: [ 083/143] net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error

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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2014 14:27:20 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [ 083/143] net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error

Hi Dan,

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:02:15PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 02:33:23AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > 2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit db31c55a6fb245fdbb752a2ca4aefec89afabb06 ]
> > 
> > If kmsg->msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) then in the
> > original code that would lead to memory corruption in the kernel if you
> > had audit configured.  If you didn't have audit configured it was
> > harmless.
> > 
> > There are some programs such as beta versions of Ruby which use too
> > large of a buffer and returning an error code breaks them.  We should
> > clamp the ->msg_namelen value instead.
> > 
> > Fixes: 1661bf364ae9 ("net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr()")
> 
> You should probably take dbb490b96584 ('net: socket: error on a negative
> msg_namelen') as well.  LTP has a test that passes negative values to
> this code and expects an error return so my clamp patch breaks LTP.

It happens that we already have it (127/143), but thank you for
checking, I really appreciate it.

Willy

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