netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: sched: Fix memory exposure from short TCA_U32

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Date:   Sun, 26 Aug 2018 13:30:34 -0400
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sched: Fix memory exposure from short TCA_U32_SEL

On 2018-08-26 2:19 a.m., Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:15 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 10:58:01PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Saner approach would be sel_size = offsetof(struct tc_u32_sel, keys[s->nkeys])...
> 
> Either is fine by me.
> 
>>> +     sel_size = struct_size(s, keys, s->nkeys);
>>> +     if (nla_len(tb[TCA_U32_SEL]) < sel_size) {
>>> +             err = -EINVAL;
>>> +             goto erridr;
>>> +     }
>>>
>>> -     n = kzalloc(sizeof(*n) + s->nkeys*sizeof(struct tc_u32_key), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> +     n = kzalloc(offsetof(typeof(*n), sel) + sel_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>>
>> ITYM
>>          n = kzalloc(offsetof(struct tc_u_common, sel.keys[s->nkeys]), GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> I prefer to reuse sel_size and keep typeof() to keep things tied to
> "n" more directly. *shrug*

Looks good to me.
We should add an nla_policy later.

Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>

cheers,
jamal