[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From e81f5645ec42ff915e4318ff1ecec8d3d2ef187c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach at arm.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:58:27 +0000
Subject: net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen

commit dbb490b96584d4e958533fb637f08b557f505657 upstream.

When copying in a struct msghdr from the user, if the user has set the
msg_namelen parameter to a negative value it gets clamped to a valid
size due to a comparison between signed and unsigned values.

Ensure the syscall errors when the user passes in a negative value.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/socket.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 03d5324..6bfb9e4 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1981,6 +1981,10 @@ static int copy_msghdr_from_user(struct msghdr *kmsg,
 {
 	if (copy_from_user(kmsg, umsg, sizeof(struct msghdr)))
 		return -EFAULT;
+
+	if (kmsg->msg_namelen < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (kmsg->msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage))
 		kmsg->msg_namelen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage);
 	return 0;
--
1.9.1