netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 3/4] tipc: safely copy UDP netlink data from user

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Date:	Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:58:08 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	richard.alpe@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 3/4] tipc: safely copy UDP netlink data
 from user

From: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 14:20:42 +0100

> The netlink policy for TIPC_NLA_UDP_LOCAL and TIPC_NLA_UDP_REMOTE
> is of type binary with a defined length. This causes the policy
> framework to threat the defined length as maximum length.
> 
> There is however no protection against a user sending a smaller
> amount of data. Prior to this patch this wasn't handled which could
> result in a partially incomplete sockaddr_storage struct containing
> uninitialized data.
> 
> In this patch we use nla_memcpy() when copying the user data. This
> ensures a potential gap at the end is cleared out properly.
> 
> This was found by Julia with Coccinelle tool.
> 
> Reported-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@...il.com>

Applied.