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Date:	Fri, 06 Jun 2014 21:51:03 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: net: llc: NULL ptr deref in llc_ui_sendmsg

Hello.

On 06/06/2014 07:42 PM, Dave Jones wrote:

>   > Hi all,

>   > While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
>   > kernel I've stumbled on the following spew:

>   > [  269.531162] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000021e
>   > [  269.531217] IP: llc_ui_sendmsg (net/llc/af_llc.c:912)

>   905         /* must bind connection to sap if user hasn't done it. */
>   906         if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_ZAPPED)) {
>   907                 /* bind to sap with null dev, exclusive. */
>   908                 rc = llc_ui_autobind(sock, addr);
>   909                 if (rc)
>   910                         goto release;
>   911         }
>   912         hdrlen = llc->dev->hard_header_len + llc_ui_header_len(sk, addr);

> looks like llc->dev was null, (understandable, given Trinity doesn't really know
> how to set up llc beyond random socket()/setsockopt() calls).

> llc_ui_autobind returns -ENODEV in that case, so it looks like the SOCK_ZAPPED test
> was false. Something like the patch below maybe ? It feels ugly to be duplicating that
> test there, but if this is agreed upon I'll resubmit this properly.

> 	Dave

> diff --git a/net/llc/af_llc.c b/net/llc/af_llc.c
> index 0080d2b0a8ae..9b192db9883b 100644
> --- a/net/llc/af_llc.c
> +++ b/net/llc/af_llc.c
> @@ -908,6 +908,11 @@ static int llc_ui_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
>   		rc = llc_ui_autobind(sock, addr);
>   		if (rc)
>   			goto release;
> +	} else {
> +		if (!llc->dev) {

	} else if (!llc->dev) {

> +			rc = -ENODEV;
> +			goto release;
> +		}
>   	}
>   	hdrlen = llc->dev->hard_header_len + llc_ui_header_len(sk, addr);
>   	size = hdrlen + len;

WBR, Sergei

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