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Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2016 12:35:47 +0900
From:   Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Min Chong <mchong@...gle.com>, Qidan He <i@...nker017.me>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ping: check minimum size on ICMP header length

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> -       if (len > 0xFFFF)
> +       if (len > 0xFFFF || len < icmph_len)
>                 return -EMSGSIZE;

EMSGSIZE usually means the message is too long. Maybe use EINVAL?
That's what the code will return if the passed-in ICMP header is
invalid (e.g., is not an echo request).

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