netdev - Re: [PATCH] ping: prevent NULL pointer dereference on write to msg

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Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2013 23:15:42 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ping: prevent NULL pointer dereference on write to msg_name

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 04:02:38PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:07:45 +0100
> 
> > A plain read() on a socket does set msg->msg_name to NULL. So check for
> > NULL pointer first.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> > ---
> > 
> > Addendum to "[v4] inet: prevent leakage of uninitialized memory to user in
> > recv syscalls".
> 
> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Hannes.
> 
> Looks like ipv6 got this case right.

No, IPv6 reuses the IPv4 recvmsg handler. The patch fixes that as well.

Thanks,

  Hannes

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