[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "udp: properly support MSG_PEEK with truncated buffers" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Jan 15 18:51:06 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 06:24:15PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> 
>     udp: properly support MSG_PEEK with truncated buffers
> 
> to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
> which can be found at:
> 

Actually, I am deferring this patch for now as it has not been
included in an upstream release yet.

Cheers,
--
Luís

>     http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue
> 
> This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt23.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> reply to this email.
> 
> For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
> 
> Thanks.
> -Luis
> 
> ---8<------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> From eb98e28dee492dcf8784eeeedeb23258d9be3f4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 08:51:12 -0500
> Subject: udp: properly support MSG_PEEK with truncated buffers
> 
> commit 197c949e7798fbf28cfadc69d9ca0c2abbf93191 upstream.
> 
> Backport of this upstream commit into stable kernels :
> 89c22d8c3b27 ("net: Fix skb csum races when peeking")
> exposed a bug in udp stack vs MSG_PEEK support, when user provides
> a buffer smaller than skb payload.
> 
> In this case,
> skb_copy_and_csum_datagram_iovec(skb, sizeof(struct udphdr),
>                                  msg->msg_iov);
> returns -EFAULT.
> 
> This bug does not happen in upstream kernels since Al Viro did a great
> job to replace this into :
> skb_copy_and_csum_datagram_msg(skb, sizeof(struct udphdr), msg);
> This variant is safe vs short buffers.
> 
> For the time being, instead reverting Herbert Xu patch and add back
> skb->ip_summed invalid changes, simply store the result of
> udp_lib_checksum_complete() so that we avoid computing the checksum a
> second time, and avoid the problematic
> skb_copy_and_csum_datagram_iovec() call.
> 
> This patch can be applied on recent kernels as it avoids a double
> checksumming, then backported to stable kernels as a bug fix.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> Cc: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek at suse.cz>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
> [ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/udp.c | 6 ++++--
>  net/ipv6/udp.c | 6 ++++--
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
> index 4b9e4aba11b0..c57fa4c74c94 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c
> @@ -1272,6 +1272,7 @@ int udp_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
>  	int peeked, off = 0;
>  	int err;
>  	int is_udplite = IS_UDPLITE(sk);
> +	bool checksum_valid = false;
>  	bool slow;
> 
>  	if (flags & MSG_ERRQUEUE)
> @@ -1297,11 +1298,12 @@ try_again:
>  	 */
> 
>  	if (copied < ulen || UDP_SKB_CB(skb)->partial_cov) {
> -		if (udp_lib_checksum_complete(skb))
> +		checksum_valid = !udp_lib_checksum_complete(skb);
> +		if (!checksum_valid)
>  			goto csum_copy_err;
>  	}
> 
> -	if (skb_csum_unnecessary(skb))
> +	if (checksum_valid || skb_csum_unnecessary(skb))
>  		err = skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, sizeof(struct udphdr),
>  					      msg->msg_iov, copied);
>  	else {
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
> index eb38829d8919..e432f8eb3c60 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
> @@ -389,6 +389,7 @@ int udpv6_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
>  	int peeked, off = 0;
>  	int err;
>  	int is_udplite = IS_UDPLITE(sk);
> +	bool checksum_valid = false;
>  	int is_udp4;
>  	bool slow;
> 
> @@ -420,11 +421,12 @@ try_again:
>  	 */
> 
>  	if (copied < ulen || UDP_SKB_CB(skb)->partial_cov) {
> -		if (udp_lib_checksum_complete(skb))
> +		checksum_valid = !udp_lib_checksum_complete(skb);
> +		if (!checksum_valid)
>  			goto csum_copy_err;
>  	}
> 
> -	if (skb_csum_unnecessary(skb))
> +	if (checksum_valid || skb_csum_unnecessary(skb))
>  		err = skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, sizeof(struct udphdr),
>  					      msg->msg_iov, copied);
>  	else {




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