netdev - [PATCH 05/51] sctp: pass a kernel pointer to sctp_setsockopt

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Date:   Sun, 19 Jul 2020 09:21:42 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 05/51] sctp: pass a kernel pointer to sctp_setsockopt_events

Use the kernel pointer that sctp_setsockopt has available instead of
directly handling the user pointer.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 net/sctp/socket.c | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index b259ea94aeddef..bc37174bd71af0 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -2193,11 +2193,9 @@ static int sctp_setsockopt_disable_fragments(struct sock *sk, int *val,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int sctp_setsockopt_events(struct sock *sk, char __user *optval,
+static int sctp_setsockopt_events(struct sock *sk, __u8 *sn_type,
 				  unsigned int optlen)
 {
-	struct sctp_event_subscribe subscribe;
-	__u8 *sn_type = (__u8 *)&subscribe;
 	struct sctp_sock *sp = sctp_sk(sk);
 	struct sctp_association *asoc;
 	int i;
@@ -2205,9 +2203,6 @@ static int sctp_setsockopt_events(struct sock *sk, char __user *optval,
 	if (optlen > sizeof(struct sctp_event_subscribe))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (copy_from_user(&subscribe, optval, optlen))
-		return -EFAULT;
-
 	for (i = 0; i < optlen; i++)
 		sctp_ulpevent_type_set(&sp->subscribe, SCTP_SN_TYPE_BASE + i,
 				       sn_type[i]);
@@ -4697,7 +4692,7 @@ static int sctp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
 		break;
 
 	case SCTP_EVENTS:
-		retval = sctp_setsockopt_events(sk, optval, optlen);
+		retval = sctp_setsockopt_events(sk, kopt, optlen);
 		break;
 
 	case SCTP_AUTOCLOSE:
-- 
2.27.0