netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] inet: prevent leakage of uninitialized memory to user in recv syscalls

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Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:14:30 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, mpb.mail@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] inet: prevent leakage of uninitialized memory to
 user in recv syscalls

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 04:20:45 +0100

> Only update *addr_len when we actually fill in sockaddr, otherwise we
> can return uninitialized memory from the stack to the caller in the
> recvfrom, recvmmsg and recvmsg syscalls. Drop the the (addr_len == NULL)
> checks because we only get called with a valid addr_len pointer either
> from sock_common_recvmsg or inet_recvmsg.
> 
> If a blocking read waits on a socket which is concurrently shut down we
> now return zero and set msg_msgnamelen to 0.
> 
> Reported-by: mpb <mpb.mail@...il.com>
> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> ---
> This is the first round, fixing the callees of sock_common_recvmsg and
> inet_recvmsg. I guess there are some more problems of this kind with
> recvmsg called directly via proto_ops->recvmsg. I will have a look at
> them in the next days.
> 
> We could actually leave out filling in msg_name if the user didn't request
> (src_addr == NULL in recvfrom). I'll put this on my TODO for net-next.
> Also it is possible to just update msg->msg_namelen directly here and simplify
> sock_common_recvmsg and inet_recvmsg, also for net-next.

This looks a lot better than your previous attempts, nice work.

Applied and queued up for -stable.

The handling of msg_name/msg_namelen in the ->recvmsg proto op is decidedly
non-trivial.  Can I suggest that we at least add some documentation about
this semantic above "(*recvmsg)" in the definition of proto_ops in
include/linux/net.h?

Thanks.
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