Re: recvmmsg/sendmmsg result types inconsistent, integer overflows?

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 07:24 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> (CCs network wizard hangout)
> 
> On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 00:12 -0400, Rich Felker wrote: 
> > While looking to add support for the recvmmsg and sendmmsg syscalls in
> > musl libc, I ran into some disturbing findings on the kernel side. In
> > the struct mmsghdr, the field where the result for each message is
> > stored has type int, which is inconsistent with the return type
> > ssize_t of recvmsg/sendmsg. So I tried to track down what happens when
> > the result is or would be larger than 2GB, and quickly found an
> > explanation for why the type in the structure was defined wrong:
> > internally, the kernel uses int as the return type for revcmsg and
> > sendmsg. Oops.
> > 
> > A bit more RTFS'ing brought me to tcp_sendmsg in net/ipv4/tcp.c (I
> > figured let's look at a stream-based protocol, since datagrams can
> > likely never be that big for any existing protocol), and as far as I
> > can tell, it's haphazardly mixing int and size_t with no checks for
> > overflows. I looked for anywhere the kernel might try to verify before
> > starting that the sum of the lengths of all the iovec components
> > doesn't overflow INT_MAX or even SIZE_MAX, but didn't find any such
> > checks.
> > 
> > Is there some magic that makes this all safe, or is this a big mess of
> > possibly-security-relevant bugs?
> > 
> > Rich
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See commit 8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a
("net: Limit socket I/O iovec total length to INT_MAX.")

(or grep for verify_iovec() )


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