linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix getsockopt(SO_PEERNAME) buffer size against potential future buffer overflow

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:59:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix getsockopt(SO_PEERNAME) buffer size against
 potential future buffer overflow

From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 15:55:45 +0200

> In net/core/sock.c's sock_getsockopt, the address buffer size is
> hardcoded to 128. It happens that sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) is
> indeed 128, but that is just luck and would probably not get updated
> whenever sockaddr_storage would grow. This patch makes it simply use
> sockaddr_storage instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by:  Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>

sockaddr_storage's size is a user exported API and therefore can
never, ever, change.

If you want to change 128 to _K_SS_MAXSIZE or similar, fine.
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