netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: don't dereference ptr before leaving _sctp_walk

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:44:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     glider@...gle.com
Cc:     dvyukov@...gle.com, kcc@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        lucien.xin@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: don't dereference ptr before leaving
 _sctp_walk_{params,errors}()

From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:28:39 +0200

> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:32 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> struct sctp_paramhdr {
>>         __be16 type;
>>         __be16 length;
>> };
>>
>> typedef struct sctp_errhdr {
>>         __be16 cause;
>>         __be16 length;
>>         __u8  variable[0];
>> } sctp_errhdr_t;
 ...
>> Something like:
>>
>>         pos.v + offsetof(pos.v, length) + sizeof(pos.v->length) <= (void *) chunk + end
> 
> Do we need to bother about truncated structures? Shouldn't it be
> enough to check that there's at least sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr)
> bytes left then?

With the zero length array at the end, it's arguable what the "size"
of such a thing is.

That's why I tried to be explicit with the length field.