netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Check the argument for listen(2)

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:32:34 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Check the argument for listen(2)

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 09:29:02AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-06-29 at 00:14 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
> > --- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
> > @@ -198,6 +198,9 @@ int inet_listen(struct socket *sock, int backlog)
> >  	unsigned char old_state;
> >  	int err;
> >  
> > +	if (backlog >= (1 << 16))
> > +		return EINVAL;
> > +
> >  	lock_sock(sk);
> >  
> >  	err = -EINVAL;
> 
> This seems pretty buggy to me.
> 
> 1) EINVAL is not -EINVAL
> 
> 2) This might break existing applications.

Yes, we should clamp the value to netdev_max_backlog.

Greetings,

  Hannes
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