netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] tcp: fix SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT

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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:44:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     soheil.kdev@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, zzoru007@...il.com, soheil@...gle.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] tcp: fix SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS for normal
 skbs

From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.kdev@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 17:02:59 -0400

> From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> 
> __sock_recv_timestamp can be called for both normal skbs (for
> receive timestamps) and for skbs on the error queue (for transmit
> timestamps).
> 
> Commit 1c885808e456
> (tcp: SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS option for SO_TIMESTAMPING)
> assumes any skb passed to __sock_recv_timestamp are from
> the error queue, containing OPT_STATS in the content of the skb.
> This results in accessing invalid memory or generating junk
> data.
> 
> To fix this, set skb->pkt_type to PACKET_OUTGOING for packets
> on the error queue. This is safe because on the receive path
> on local sockets skb->pkt_type is never set to PACKET_OUTGOING.
> With that, copy OPT_STATS from a packet, only if its pkt_type
> is PACKET_OUTGOING.
> 
> Fixes: 1c885808e456 ("tcp: SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS option for SO_TIMESTAMPING")
> Reported-by: JongHwan Kim <zzoru007@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.