linux-kernel - Re: [ 083/143] net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error

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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2014 13:02:15 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [ 083/143] net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 02:33:23AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit db31c55a6fb245fdbb752a2ca4aefec89afabb06 ]
> 
> If kmsg->msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) then in the
> original code that would lead to memory corruption in the kernel if you
> had audit configured.  If you didn't have audit configured it was
> harmless.
> 
> There are some programs such as beta versions of Ruby which use too
> large of a buffer and returning an error code breaks them.  We should
> clamp the ->msg_namelen value instead.
> 
> Fixes: 1661bf364ae9 ("net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr()")

You should probably take dbb490b96584 ('net: socket: error on a negative
msg_namelen') as well.  LTP has a test that passes negative values to
this code and expects an error return so my clamp patch breaks LTP.

regards,
dan carpenter

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