linux-hardening - Re: Coverity: __sock_gen_cookie(): Error handling issues

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:40:09 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Coverity: __sock_gen_cookie(): Error handling issues

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 6:16 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:

>
> It looks like the existing code already works as intended, so no need to
> silence the warning. The comment and reload might be nice to add, just
> to clarify for anyone looking at it again in the future, though.


The current code in net-next is broken, because if we succeed to
change sk->sk_cookie,
we return 0 (instead of @new). So your report was not a false positive.

Thanks.