Re: [PATCH] net: core: scm: fix information leak to userland

[Eric Dumazet]

Le samedi 30 octobre 2010 Ã 18:26 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov a Ãcrit :
> Structure cmsghdr is copied to userland with padding bytes
> unitialized on architectures where __kernel_size_t is unsigned long.
> It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Compile tested.
> 
>  net/core/scm.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/scm.c b/net/core/scm.c
> index 413cab8..a4a9b70 100644
> --- a/net/core/scm.c
> +++ b/net/core/scm.c
> @@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ int put_cmsg(struct msghdr * msg, int level, int type, int len, void *data)
>  		msg->msg_flags |= MSG_CTRUNC;
>  		cmlen = msg->msg_controllen;
>  	}
> +	memset(&cmhdr, 0, sizeof(cmhdr));
>  	cmhdr.cmsg_level = level;
>  	cmhdr.cmsg_type = type;
>  	cmhdr.cmsg_len = cmlen;


???

struct cmsghdr {
        __kernel_size_t cmsg_len;       /* data byte count, including hdr */
        int             cmsg_level;     /* originating protocol */
        int             cmsg_type;      /* protocol-specific type */
};

Could you explain where are the padding bytes ?



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