netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv6: don't deliver packets with zero length to raw sockets

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Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:01:12 +0200
From:   Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
To:     Jamie Bainbridge <jbainbri@...hat.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv6: don't deliver packets with zero length to raw
 sockets

Hi Jamie,

2017-04-21, 13:58:44 +1000, Jamie Bainbridge wrote:
> IPv6 assumes there is data after the network header and blindly delivers
> skbs to raw sockets without checking the presence of data.
> 
> With an application in a common loop where it checks select/poll/epoll
> then ioctl(SIOCINQ/FIONREAD) is positive before continuing to
> recvfrom(), this behaviour can cause the application to loop forever
> on ioctl() because there is a zero-length skb to receive.
> 
> With this, it is very easy to make a Denial of Service attack by
> crafting a packet which declares a Next Header in the IPv6 header but
> does not actually supply a transport header and/or payload.
> 
> skb->len is already correctly set in ip6_input_finish() with pskb_pull()
> so check this length before delivering zero data to raw sockets.

Isn't that changing behavior? recv() currently returns 0 when a packet
that stops right after the IP header arrives. After this, the userspace
program won't receive anything in this case?

-- 
Sabrina