netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] sctp: fix copying more bytes than expected in sctp_add_bind

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Date:	Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:05:17 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dvyukov@...gle.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
	vyasevich@...il.com, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller@...glegroups.com,
	kcc@...gle.com, glider@...gle.com, sasha.levin@...cle.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, lkp@...el.com, fengguang.wu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] sctp: fix copying more bytes than expected in
 sctp_add_bind_addr

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Date: Tue,  8 Mar 2016 10:34:28 -0300

> Dmitry reported that sctp_add_bind_addr may read more bytes than
> expected in case the parameter is a IPv4 addr supplied by the user
> through calls such as sctp_bindx_add(), because it always copies
> sizeof(union sctp_addr) while the buffer may be just a struct
> sockaddr_in, which is smaller.
> 
> This patch then fixes it by limiting the memcpy to the min between the
> union size and a (new parameter) provided addr size. Where possible this
> parameter still is the size of that union, except for reading from
> user-provided buffers, which then it accounts for protocol type.
> 
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.