From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Tools: hv: verify origin of netlink connector message
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:40:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120531144006.GA24592@aepfle.de> (raw)
The SuSE security team suggested to use recvfrom instead of recv to be
certain that the connector message is originated from kernel.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
---
tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Index: linux-3.4/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.4.orig/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ linux-3.4/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -701,14 +701,18 @@ int main(void)
pfd.fd = fd;
while (1) {
+ struct sockaddr *addr_p = (struct sockaddr *) &addr;
+ socklen_t addr_l = sizeof(addr);
pfd.events = POLLIN;
pfd.revents = 0;
poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
- len = recv(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0);
+ len = recvfrom(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0,
+ addr_p, &addr_l);
- if (len < 0) {
- syslog(LOG_ERR, "recv failed; error:%d", len);
+ if (len < 0 || addr.nl_pid) {
+ syslog(LOG_ERR, "recvfrom failed; pid:%u error:%d %s",
+ addr.nl_pid, errno, strerror(errno));
close(fd);
return -1;
}
next reply other threads:[~2012-05-31 14:40 UTC|newest]
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2012-05-31 14:40 Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-06-01 19:26 ` [PATCH] Tools: hv: verify origin of netlink connector message KY Srinivasan
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