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SubjectRe: [PATCH net] rds: set correct msg_namelen
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From: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:37:48 +0800

> Jay Fenlason (fenlason@redhat.com) found a bug,
> that recvfrom() on an RDS socket can return the contents of random kernel
> memory to userspace if it was called with a address length larger than
> sizeof(struct sockaddr_in).
> rds_recvmsg() also fails to set the addr_len paramater properly before
> returning, but that's just a bug.
> There are also a number of cases wher recvfrom() can return an entirely bogus
> address. Anything in rds_recvmsg() that returns a non-negative value but does
> not go through the "sin = (struct sockaddr_in *)msg->msg_name;" code path
> at the end of the while(1) loop will return up to 128 bytes of kernel memory
> to userspace.
>
> And I write two test programs to reproduce this bug, you will see that in
> rds_server, fromAddr will be overwritten and the following sock_fd will be
> destroyed.
> Yes, it is the programmer's fault to set msg_namelen incorrectly, but it is
> better to make the kernel copy the real length of address to user space in
> such case.
>
> How to run the test programs ?
> I test them on 32bit x86 system, 3.5.0-rc7.
...
> Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks.


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