[PATCH 033/118] caif: Fix missing msg_namelen update in caif_seqpkt_recvmsg()

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue May 7 13:37:59 UTC 2013


3.5.7.12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>

commit 2d6fbfe733f35c6b355c216644e08e149c61b271 upstream.

The current code does not fill the msg_name member in case it is set.
It also does not set the msg_namelen member to 0 and therefore makes
net/socket.c leak the local, uninitialized sockaddr_storage variable
to userland -- 128 bytes of kernel stack memory.

Fix that by simply setting msg_namelen to 0 as obviously nobody cared
about caif_seqpkt_recvmsg() not filling the msg_name in case it was
set.

Cc: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland at stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/caif/caif_socket.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/caif/caif_socket.c b/net/caif/caif_socket.c
index 78f1cda..21a1840 100644
--- a/net/caif/caif_socket.c
+++ b/net/caif/caif_socket.c
@@ -286,6 +286,8 @@ static int caif_seqpkt_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 	if (m->msg_flags&MSG_OOB)
 		goto read_error;
 
+	m->msg_namelen = 0;
+
 	skb = skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags, 0 , &ret);
 	if (!skb)
 		goto read_error;
-- 
1.8.1.2





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