netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:54:03 +0800
From:   Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Cc:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>, kcc@...gle.com,
        glider@...gle.com, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, andreyknvl@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
<marcelo.leitner@...il.com> wrote:
> Andrey Konovalov reported that KASAN detected that SCTP was using a slab
> beyond the boundaries. It was caused because when handling out of the
> blue packets in function sctp_sf_ootb() it was checking the chunk len
> only after already processing the first chunk, validating only for the
> 2nd and subsequent ones.
>
> The fix is to just move the check upwards so it's also validated for the
> 1st chunk.
>
> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>