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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Andrii Nakryiko , Eduard Zingerman , Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi , Martin KaFai Lau , Song Liu , Yonghong Song , Jiri Olsa , Emil Tsalapatis , Ihor Solodrai , John Fastabend , Stanislav Fomichev , Shuah Khan , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, david.laight.linux@gmail.com, kernel-team@meta.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/6] ipv6: reject a negative optlen in do_ipv6_getsockopt() Message-ID: References: <20260925-sockopt_expand_out_v2-v1-0-c3ef2e3bb5c0@debian.org> <20260925-sockopt_expand_out_v2-v1-1-c3ef2e3bb5c0@debian.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260925-sockopt_expand_out_v2-v1-1-c3ef2e3bb5c0@debian.org> On 09/25, Breno Leitao wrote: > IPv4's do_ip_getsockopt() rejects a negative optlen right after reading > it. do_ipv6_getsockopt() never has, and nothing downstream treats it as > an error either: len is an int, but every consumer compares it unsigned, > so -1 behaves as a huge value and each site clamps to its own reply > size. > > len = min_t(unsigned int, sizeof(int), len); > > So getsockopt(fd, SOL_IPV6, IPV6_TCLASS, buf, &len) with len set to -1 > answers 4 bytes and reports 4, rather than failing. > > This is a bug ready to bite us in the near future, let's get this fixed. > > I've found this because testing the rest of the patch was returning > inconsistency when optlen = -1. If I can do getsockopt with len=-1 today and get 4 bytes back, isn't that a uapi and we are gonna break someone?