Re: [PATCH] sctp: don't dereference ptr before leaving _sctp_walk_{params,errors}()

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:28:39 +0200

> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:32 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>> struct sctp_paramhdr {
>>         __be16 type;
>>         __be16 length;
>> };
>>
>> typedef struct sctp_errhdr {
>>         __be16 cause;
>>         __be16 length;
>>         __u8  variable[0];
>> } sctp_errhdr_t;
 ...
>> Something like:
>>
>>         pos.v + offsetof(pos.v, length) + sizeof(pos.v->length) <= (void *) chunk + end
> 
> Do we need to bother about truncated structures? Shouldn't it be
> enough to check that there's at least sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr)
> bytes left then?

With the zero length array at the end, it's arguable what the "size"
of such a thing is.

That's why I tried to be explicit with the length field.