netdev - [PATCH 07/16] irda: Fix missing msg_namelen update in irda_recvmsg

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Message-Id: <1365335522-29931-8-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com>
Date:	Sun,  7 Apr 2013 13:51:53 +0200
From:	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>,
	Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@...nbossa.org>,
	Andy King <acking@...are.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com>,
	George Zhang <georgezhang@...are.com>,
	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
	Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
	Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@...nbossa.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>,
	Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com>,
	Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@...ibm.com>,
	Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>,
	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 07/16] irda: Fix missing msg_namelen update in irda_recvmsg_dgram()

The current code does not fill the msg_name member in case it is set.
It also does not set the msg_namelen member to 0 and therefore makes
net/socket.c leak the local, uninitialized sockaddr_storage variable
to userland -- 128 bytes of kernel stack memory.

Fix that by simply setting msg_namelen to 0 as obviously nobody cared
about irda_recvmsg_dgram() not filling the msg_name in case it was
set.

Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
---
 net/irda/af_irda.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/irda/af_irda.c b/net/irda/af_irda.c
index d28e7f0..e493b33 100644
--- a/net/irda/af_irda.c
+++ b/net/irda/af_irda.c
@@ -1386,6 +1386,8 @@ static int irda_recvmsg_dgram(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 
 	IRDA_DEBUG(4, "%s()\n", __func__);
 
+	msg->msg_namelen = 0;
+
 	skb = skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags & ~MSG_DONTWAIT,
 				flags & MSG_DONTWAIT, &err);
 	if (!skb)
-- 
1.7.10.4

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