netdev - Re: [patch] net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error

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Date:	Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:42:47 +0000
From:	Eric Wong <normalperson@...t.net>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Reported-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@...t.net>

Thanks Dan, Ruby trunk r43886 works out-of-the-box with this fix.
Dave: please queue for stable, thanks

Tested-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@...t.net>

> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
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