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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Michal Luczaj <mhal@rbox.co>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: Make copy_safe_from_sockptr() match documentation
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:29:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241113192924.4f931147@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241111-sockptr-copy-ret-fix-v1-1-a520083a93fb@rbox.co>

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:17:34 +0100 Michal Luczaj wrote:
> copy_safe_from_sockptr()
>   return copy_from_sockptr()
>     return copy_from_sockptr_offset()
>       return copy_from_user()
> 
> copy_from_user() does not return an error on fault. Instead, it returns a
> number of bytes that were not copied. Have it handled.
> 
> Fixes: 6309863b31dd ("net: add copy_safe_from_sockptr() helper")
> Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj <mhal@rbox.co>
> ---
> Patch has a side effect: it un-breaks garbage input handling of
> nfc_llcp_setsockopt() and mISDN's data_sock_setsockopt().

I'll move this to the commit message, it's important.

Are you planning to scan callers of copy_from_sockptr() ?
I looked at 3 callers who save the return value, 2 of them are buggy :S

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-14  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-10 23:17 [PATCH net] net: Make copy_safe_from_sockptr() match documentation Michal Luczaj
2024-11-14  3:29 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-11-14 23:36   ` Michal Luczaj
2024-11-15  1:57     ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-11-14  4:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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