linux-kernel - [PATCH net 2/3] net/smc: add error handling for get

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:22:50 +0200
From:   Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
        raspl@...ux.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 2/3] net/smc: add error handling for get_user()

From: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@...ux.ibm.com>

For security reasons the return code of get_user() should always be
checked.

Fixes: 01d2f7e2cdd31 ("net/smc: sockopts TCP_NODELAY and TCP_CORK")
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 net/smc/af_smc.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/af_smc.c b/net/smc/af_smc.c
index c12a7fc18f56..6e5479067db0 100644
--- a/net/smc/af_smc.c
+++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c
@@ -1456,7 +1456,8 @@ static int smc_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
 
 	if (optlen < sizeof(int))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	get_user(val, (int __user *)optval);
+	if (get_user(val, (int __user *)optval))
+		return -EFAULT;
 
 	lock_sock(sk);
 	switch (optname) {
-- 
2.16.4