From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:14:34 +0000 (+0100) Subject: net: add BUG_ON if kernel advertises msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) X-Git-Tag: v3.2.54~26 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3fd2196b6b82d93dc2878c5291de8014ba61d13;p=pandora-kernel.git net: add BUG_ON if kernel advertises msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) [ 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 --- Reading git-diff-tree failed