From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Hannes Frederic Sowa" , "Eric Dumazet" , "David S. Miller" Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:08:44 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 3.2 160/185] net: add BUG_ON if kernel advertises msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.2.54-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Hannes Frederic Sowa [ Upstream commit 68c6beb373955da0886d8f4f5995b3922ceda4be ] In that case it is probable that kernel code overwrote part of the stack. So we should bail out loudly here. The BUG_ON may be removed in future if we are sure all protocols are conformant. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/socket.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index 18d478a..8021b0f 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -215,12 +215,13 @@ static int move_addr_to_user(struct sockaddr *kaddr, int klen, int err; int len; + BUG_ON(klen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)); err = get_user(len, ulen); if (err) return err; if (len > klen) len = klen; - if (len < 0 || len > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)) + if (len < 0) return -EINVAL; if (len) { if (audit_sockaddr(klen, kaddr))