[PATCH net 6/9] sctp: sysctl: auth_enable: avoid using current->nsproxy

From: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2025 - 10:37:39 EST


As mentioned in a previous commit of this series, using the 'net'
structure via 'current' is not recommended for different reasons:

- Inconsistency: getting info from the reader's/writer's netns vs only
from the opener's netns.

- current->nsproxy can be NULL in some cases, resulting in an 'Oops'
(null-ptr-deref), e.g. when the current task is exiting, as spotted by
syzbot [1] using acct(2).

The 'net' structure can be obtained from the table->data using
container_of().

Note that table->data could also be used directly, but that would
increase the size of this fix, while 'sctp.ctl_sock' still needs to be
retrieved from 'net' structure.

Fixes: b14878ccb7fa ("net: sctp: cache auth_enable per endpoint")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/67769ecb.050a0220.3a8527.003f.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx [1]
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sctp/sysctl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/sysctl.c b/net/sctp/sysctl.c
index a5285815264dfa9d88d1d71244f309448e97a506..9d29611621feaf0d2e8d7c923601ab374515563b 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sysctl.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sysctl.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static int proc_sctp_do_alpha_beta(const struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
static int proc_sctp_do_auth(const struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
- struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns;
+ struct net *net = container_of(ctl->data, struct net, sctp.auth_enable);
struct ctl_table tbl;
int new_value, ret;


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