linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel

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Message-ID: <20161108154924.GA19063@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2016 07:49:24 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:     drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        lars.ellenberg@...bit.com, philipp.reisner@...bit.com,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        christoph.lechleitner@...g.at, wolfgang.glas@...g.at
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:43:09AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Don't pass a size larger than iov_len to kernel_sendmsg().
> Otherwise it will cause a NULL pointer deref when kernel_sendmsg()
> returns with rv < size.
> 
> Although the issue exists since day 0, only on non-ancient kernels
> that contain change 57be5bdad759 ("ip: convert tcp_sendmsg() to iov_iter
> primitives") it seems to trigger [0][1][2][3][4].

The real fix here is to convert it to the right primitive, e.g. take
Al's patch from here:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/commit/?h=work.sendmsg&id=7a4992299554a9e1ed3c4540bcfa9e40aa9a6376