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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuni1840@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v1 net 1/2] af_unix: Fix fortify_panic() in unix_bind_bsd().
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 15:34:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DADE655-EE51-4DB0-8CEC-C3791AB12129@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64b8631b8f1b0_286a73294cc@willemb.c.googlers.com.notmuch>

On July 19, 2023 3:26:35 PM PDT, Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
>Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
>The extensive comments are really helpful to understand what's
>going on.
>
>An alternative would be to just cast sunaddr to a struct
>sockaddr_storage *ss and use that both here and in unix_mkname_bsd?
>It's not immediately trivial that the caller has always actually
>allocated one of those. But the rest becomes self documenting.

I would much prefer the internal APIs actually passed around the true sockaddr_storage pointer. This is what I did recently for NFS, for example:
https://git.kernel.org/linus/cf0d7e7f4520

-Kees


-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-19 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-19 18:53 [PATCH v1 net 0/2] net: Fix error/warning by -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 Kuniyuki Iwashima
2023-07-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v1 net 1/2] af_unix: Fix fortify_panic() in unix_bind_bsd() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2023-07-19 22:26   ` Willem de Bruijn
2023-07-19 22:34     ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-07-19 23:15       ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2023-07-19 18:53 ` [PATCH v1 net 2/2] af_packet: Fix warning of fortified memcpy() in packet_getname() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2023-07-19 21:08   ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2023-07-19 21:15   ` Willem de Bruijn
2023-07-19 21:27     ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2023-07-19 21:34       ` Willem de Bruijn
2023-07-19 21:38         ` David Laight
2023-07-19 21:39         ` Kuniyuki Iwashima

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