Re: [PATCH] net: sendmsg: fix NULL pointer dereference

[David Miller]

From: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 21:26:58 +0400

> Sasha's report:
 ...
> This reports means that we've come to netlink_sendmsg() with msg->msg_name == NULL and msg->msg_namelen > 0.
> 
> After this report there was no usual "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference"
> and this gave me a clue that address 0 is mapped and contains valid socket address structure in it.
> 
> This bug was introduced in f3d3342602f8bcbf37d7c46641cb9bca7618eb1c
> (net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic).
> Commit message states that:
> 	"Set msg->msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a
> 	 non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't
> 	 affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the
> 	 address."
> But in fact this affects sendto when address 0 is mapped and contains
> socket address structure in it. In such case copy-in address will succeed,
> verify_iovec() function will successfully exit with msg->msg_namelen > 0
> and msg->msg_name == NULL.
> 
> This patch fixes it by setting msg_namelen to 0 if msg_name == NULL.
> 
> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!
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