linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] net: don't call strlen() on the user buffer in packet_bind

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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2017 21:13:02 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net: don't call strlen() on the user buffer in packet_bind_spkt()

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:57 AM, Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com> wrote:
> This happens because addr.sa_data copied from the userspace is not
> zero-terminated, and copying it with strlcpy() in packet_bind_spkt()
> results in calling strlen() on the kernel copy of that non-terminated
> buffer.

Very similar to

commit b301f2538759933cf9ff1f7c4f968da72e3f0757
Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Date:   Thu Mar 24 21:29:53 2016 +0100

    netfilter: x_tables: enforce nul-terminated table name from
getsockopt GET_ENTRIES