netdev - Re: [PATCH] ax25: Fix use of copy_from_sockptr() in ax25

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Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:10:23 +0200
From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Osterried <thomas@...erried.de>,
        linux-hams@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ax25: Fix use of copy_from_sockptr() in ax25_setsockopt()

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 08:23:09AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 06:24:35PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > The destination pointer passed to copy_from_sockptr() is an unsigned long *
> > but the source in userspace is an unsigned int * resulting in an integer
> > of the wrong size being copied from userspace.
> > 
> > This happens to work on 32 bit but breaks 64-bit where bytes 4..7 will not
> > be initialized.  By luck it may work on little endian but on big endian
> > where the userspace data is copied to the upper 32 bit of the destination
> > it's most likely going to break.
> > 
> > A simple test case to demonstrate this setsockopt() issue is:
> 
> Looks good,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Sadly the kernel test robot has raised a bunch of warnings in this patch.
To fix those I'll pull a few fixes from another patch I was planning to
send later and merge them into this patch and post the resulting patch
as v2.

Thanks for the review,

  Ralf