linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: cleanly handle kernel vs user buffers for ->msg

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Message-ID: <20200513165850.GA26121@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 18:58:50 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: cleanly handle kernel vs user buffers for
 ->msg_control

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 09:18:36AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Please try the following syzbot repro, since it crashes after your patch.

Doesn't crash here, but I could totally see why it could depending
in the stack initialization.  Please try the patch below - these
msghdr intance were something I missed because they weren't using
any highlevel recvmsg interfaces.  I'll do another round of audits
to see if there is anything else.


diff --git a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
index 18d05403d3b52..a0e50cc57e545 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
@@ -1075,6 +1075,7 @@ static int do_ipv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
 		msg.msg_control = optval;
 		msg.msg_controllen = len;
 		msg.msg_flags = flags;
+		msg.msg_control_is_user = true;
 
 		lock_sock(sk);
 		skb = np->pktoptions;