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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tt.rantala@gmail.com
Cc: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	nhorman@tuxdriver.com, vyasevich@gmail.com, sri@us.ibm.com,
	davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: fix -ENOMEM result with invalid user space pointer in sendto() syscall
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:12:14 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121128.111214.940932171814395302.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353590596-12216-1-git-send-email-tt.rantala@gmail.com>

From: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:23:16 +0200

> Consider the following program, that sets the second argument to the
> sendto() syscall incorrectly:
 ...
> We get -ENOMEM:
> 
>  $ strace -e sendto ./demo
>  sendto(3, NULL, 1, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(11111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
> 
> Propagate the error code from sctp_user_addto_chunk(), so that we will
> tell user space what actually went wrong:
> 
>  $ strace -e sendto ./demo
>  sendto(3, NULL, 1, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(11111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
> 
> Noticed while running Trinity (the syscall fuzzer).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>

Applied.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-28 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-22 13:23 [PATCH] sctp: fix -ENOMEM result with invalid user space pointer in sendto() syscall Tommi Rantala
2012-11-25 21:03 ` David Miller
2012-11-26 14:56 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-11-26 22:34   ` David Miller
2012-11-26 15:25 ` Neil Horman
2012-11-28 16:12 ` David Miller [this message]

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