[PATCH 5.4 007/154] sctp: sysctl: auth_enable: avoid using current->nsproxy

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-04-08T12:03:35Z

From: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>

commit 15649fd5415eda664ef35780c2013adeb5d9c695 upstream.

As mentioned in a previous commit of this series, using the 'net'
structure via 'current' is not recommended for different reasons:

- Inconsistency: getting info from the reader's/writer's netns vs only
from the opener's netns.

- current->nsproxy can be NULL in some cases, resulting in an 'Oops'
(null-ptr-deref), e.g. when the current task is exiting, as spotted by
syzbot [1] using acct(2).

The 'net' structure can be obtained from the table->data using
container_of().

Note that table->data could also be used directly, but that would
increase the size of this fix, while 'sctp.ctl_sock' still needs to be
retrieved from 'net' structure.

Fixes: b14878ccb7fa ("net: sctp: cache auth_enable per endpoint")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/67769ecb.050a0220.3a8527.003f.GAE@google.com [1]
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250108-net-sysctl-current-nsproxy-v1-6-5df34b2083e8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Magali Lemes <magali.lemes@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/sctp/sysctl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/sctp/sysctl.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sysctl.c
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ static int proc_sctp_do_auth(struct ctl_
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
loff_t *ppos)
{
- struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns;
+ struct net *net = container_of(ctl->data, struct net, sctp.auth_enable);
struct ctl_table tbl;
int new_value, ret;