netdev - Re: Deadlock with icmpv6fuzz

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Date:	Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:43:18 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: Deadlock with icmpv6fuzz

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:24:02PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> >From a quick scan of the code, it looks as if optlen is never sanity
> checked in the case of setsockopt(IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MGR), and
> ipv6_flowlabel_opt() calls into fl_create() with whatever value
> userspace passes in, which then pretty much does kmalloc(optlen).
> So if icmpv6fuzz passes some big random value, it can cause this failure.
> 
> I don't know what the appropriate limit should be, so no patch, sorry.

Well it is legal (though unlikely) to pass very long options.
So the real fix would be to avoid copying the control message
at all and modify all the code involved to read user pointers
directly.  Someone with a lot of patience is required for this :)

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