netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: add validation for the socket syscall protocol argument

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Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:59:55 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: add validation for the socket syscall protocol argument

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
<hannes@...essinduktion.org> wrote:
> --- a/net/socket.c
> +++ b/net/socket.c
> @@ -1098,6 +1098,9 @@ int __sock_create(struct net *net, int family, int type, int protocol,
>                 return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
>         if (type < 0 || type >= SOCK_MAX)
>                 return -EINVAL;
> +       /* upper bound should be tested by per-protocol .create callbacks */
> +       if (protocol < 0)
> +               return -EINVAL;

Why? At least  bt_sock_create() and  netlink_create() do both upper bound
and lower bound checks.
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