netdev - Re: [patch] net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error

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Date:	Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:13:51 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	normalperson@...t.net, hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [patch] net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:27:46 -0800

> On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 15:40 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> If kmsg->msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) then in the
>> original code that would lead to memory corruption in the kernel if you
>> had audit configured.  If you didn't have audit configured it was
>> harmless.
>> 
>> There are some programs such as beta versions of Ruby which use too
>> large of a buffer and returning an error code breaks them.  We should
>> clamp the ->msg_namelen value instead.
>> 
>> Reported-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@...t.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> 
> Fixes: 1661bf364ae9 ("net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr()")
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks everyone.
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