netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] af_iucv: Move sockaddr length checks to before accessing sa

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Date:   Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:43:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jwi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
        raspl@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] af_iucv: Move sockaddr length checks to
 before accessing sa_family in bind and connect handlers

From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:32:28 +0200

> From: Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@...gle.com>
> 
> Verify that the caller-provided sockaddr structure is large enough to
> contain the sa_family field, before accessing it in bind() and connect()
> handlers of the AF_IUCV socket. Since neither syscall enforces a minimum
> size of the corresponding memory region, very short sockaddrs (zero or
> one byte long) result in operating on uninitialized memory while
> referencing .sa_family.
> 
> Fixes: 52a82e23b9f2 ("af_iucv: Validate socket address length in iucv_sock_bind()")
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@...gle.com>
> [jwi: removed unneeded null-check for addr]
> Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.