Re: net: socket: NULL ptr deref in sendmsg

[David Miller]

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:54:40 +0200

> On Sa, 2014-07-26 at 19:48 +0400, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> 2014-07-26 2:15 GMT+04:00 Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Otherwise I would just set msg_namelen = 0, too, and just not handle
>> > passed in NULL pointers to sockaddrs.
>> >
>> 
>> I like that, how about such chage:
 ...
> LGTM! Can you send a patch?

I definitely agree that we should treat NULL as no address specified.
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