linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 2/2] netlink: Bounds-check struct nlmsgerr creation

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Message-ID: <20220831202017.69838448@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:20:17 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@...ux.dev>,
        Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
        Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] netlink: Bounds-check struct nlmsgerr creation

On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:06:10 -0700 Kees Cook wrote:
> For 32-bit systems, it might be possible to wrap lnmsgerr content
> lengths beyond SIZE_MAX. Explicitly test for all overflows, and mark the
> memcpy() as being unable to internally diagnose overflows.
> 
> This also excludes netlink from the coming runtime bounds check on
> memcpy(), since it's an unusual case of open-coded sizing and
> allocation.

This one you gotta rebase we just rewrote the af_netlink 
part last week :)