From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:14:34 +0000 (+0100) Subject: net: add BUG_ON if kernel advertises msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) X-Git-Url: http://git.mmlx.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5c586f163dc452d8cc19b456f6f2f3e704025462;p=linux-edison.git net: add BUG_ON if kernel advertises msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) [ Upstream commit 68c6beb373955da0886d8f4f5995b3922ceda4be ] In that case it is probable that kernel code overwrote part of the stack. So we should bail out loudly here. The BUG_ON may be removed in future if we are sure all protocols are conformant. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index 9f7d6263f7f..921d1a55c32 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -215,12 +215,13 @@ static int move_addr_to_user(struct sockaddr_storage *kaddr, int klen, int err; int len; + BUG_ON(klen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)); err = get_user(len, ulen); if (err) return err; if (len > klen) len = klen; - if (len < 0 || len > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)) + if (len < 0) return -EINVAL; if (len) { if (audit_sockaddr(klen, kaddr))