netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: diag: add workaround for inode truncation

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Date:   Tue, 1 Sep 2020 10:32:03 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
        zeil@...dex-team.ru, khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru, pabeni@...hat.com,
        Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: diag: add workaround for inode truncation

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 09:36:13 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 08:55:29 +0200 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On 8/31/20 4:59 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:  
> > > Dave reports that struct inet_diag_msg::idiag_inode is 32 bit,
> > > while inode's type is unsigned long. This leads to truncation.
> > > 
> > > Since there is nothing we can do about the size of existing
> > > fields - add a new attribute to carry 64 bit inode numbers.  
> > 
> > Last time I checked socket inode numbers were 32bit ?
> > 
> > Is there a plan changing this ?  
> 
> Ugh, you're right that appears to be a local patch :/ 
> 
> I should have checked, sorry for the noise.

Looking at get_next_ino() - it seems like the risk of overflow is very
real, no?  Should we not address this?