[PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: add sockopt_expand_out()
From: Breno Leitao
Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 09:39:22 EST
Some getsockopt options size their reply from a count the caller left in
optval rather than from optlen, and so write past the optlen the caller
declared. Userspace relies on that, so the sockopt_t conversion has to
keep doing it.
IP_MSFILTER is the first one to convert: its reply covers the
imsf_numsrc sources the caller asked for, while optlen only has to cover
the fixed header.
Add sockopt_expand_out() to grow opt->iter_out mid-air, so the quirk
sits in one place instead of each protocol assuming it implicitly. It is
a no-op unless the reply outruns optlen. Growing re-anchors the iterator
at the head of optval, so it has to be called before anything is written
through iter_out.
Only a user buffer can be longer than optlen says. A kernel-backed
optval keeps the bounded iterator, and a callback that asks to grow one
gets a WARN_ON_ONCE() and -EINVAL.
Nothing in tree can trip that WARN: the only kernel-backed path into
do_ip_getsockopt() is sol_ip_sockopt(), which takes IP_TOS and
IP_TRANSPARENT only. It is an assert for the in-kernel callers BPF and
io_uring gain once the conversion is done, so they declare an optlen
covering the whole buffer instead of repeating the userspace mistake.
The conversion in the next patch calls sockptr_to_sockopt() from
net/ipv4/, so drop its static and declare it in net.h.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/net.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
net/socket.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/net.h b/include/linux/net.h
index 470100ae710773..7db3aff33f2ba5 100644
--- a/include/linux/net.h
+++ b/include/linux/net.h
@@ -70,6 +70,38 @@ static inline int sockopt_init_user(sockopt_t *opt, char __user *optval,
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * Grow optval to @size, for the options whose reply is sized by a count the
+ * caller left in optval rather than by optlen. Those write past optlen today
+ * and userspace relies on it.
+ *
+ * Call it before writing through opt->iter_out: it re-anchors the iterator at
+ * the head of optval. Only a user buffer can be longer than the optlen the
+ * caller declared, so a kernel-backed optval is refused with -EINVAL.
+ */
+static inline int sockopt_expand_out(sockopt_t *opt, size_t size)
+{
+ if (size <= (size_t)opt->optlen)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (size > INT_MAX)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /* Re-anchoring reads iter_out.ubuf, so the iterator has to be a user
+ * buffer that nothing has written through yet.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!iter_is_ubuf(&opt->iter_out) ||
+ iov_iter_count(&opt->iter_out) != (size_t)opt->optlen))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ iov_iter_ubuf(&opt->iter_out, ITER_DEST, opt->iter_out.ubuf, size);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+int sockptr_to_sockopt(sockopt_t *opt, sockptr_t optval, sockptr_t optlen,
+ struct kvec *kvec);
+
struct poll_table_struct;
struct pipe_inode_info;
struct inode;
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index c05d86e63abf7d..29a0f7f8e2cabe 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -2437,8 +2437,8 @@ INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(bool tcp_bpf_bypass_getsockopt(int level,
* It is important to remember that both iov points to the same data, but,
* .iter_in is read-only and .iter_out is write-only by the protocol callbacks
*/
-static int sockptr_to_sockopt(sockopt_t *opt, sockptr_t optval,
- sockptr_t optlen, struct kvec *kvec)
+int sockptr_to_sockopt(sockopt_t *opt, sockptr_t optval,
+ sockptr_t optlen, struct kvec *kvec)
{
int koptlen;
--
2.53.0-Meta