linux-kernel - Re: net: heap-out-of-bounds in sock

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Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:07:30 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Cc:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>,
	Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Edward Jee <edjee@...gle.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: net: heap-out-of-bounds in sock_setsockopt

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com> wrote:

> Hmm, we should exclude the raw socket case, something like the
> following, but I am not sure if the check is too strict or not, also
> not sure if we should return an error for this raw socket case.
>
> diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
> index 765be83..c26e80a 100644
> --- a/net/core/sock.c
> +++ b/net/core/sock.c
> @@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ int sock_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int
> level, int optname,
>
>                 if (val & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID &&
>                     !(sk->sk_tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID)) {
> -                       if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP) {
> +                       if (sk->sk_protocol == IPPROTO_TCP &&
> sk->sk_type == SOCK_STREAM) {
>                                 if (sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED) {
>                                         ret = -EINVAL;
>                                         break;

This looks right, please post this officially ;)

tcp_sk(sk) only works for TCP sockets , and the test must include
sk->sk_type == SOCK_STREAM
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