net: add BUG_ON if kernel advertises msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)
authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:14:34 +0000 (03:14 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 3 Jan 2014 04:33:33 +0000 (04:33 +0000)
[ 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 <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/socket.c

index 18d478a..8021b0f 100644 (file)
@@ -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))