netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/sctp: Validate parameter size for SCTP_GET_ASSOC

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Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:08:50 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vyasevich@...il.com
Cc:	linux@...ck-us.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, sri@...ibm.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/sctp: Validate parameter size for
 SCTP_GET_ASSOC_STATS

From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:00:42 -0500

> On 02/27/2013 03:57 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> Building sctp may fail with:
>>
>> In function ‘copy_from_user’,
>>      inlined from ‘sctp_getsockopt_assoc_stats’ at
>>      net/sctp/socket.c:5656:20:
>> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:211:26: error: call to
>>      ‘copy_from_user_overflow’ declared with attribute error:
>>      copy_from_user()
>>      buffer size is not provably correct
>>
>> if built with W=1 due to a missing parameter size validation
>> before the call to copy_from_user.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
>> ---
>> v2: Fix by moving the existing parameter size validation up
>>      in the function instead of adding an additional one.
> 
> This works too...
> 
> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>

I'll apply this and queue it up for -stable, thanks everyone.