net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen
authorMatthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:58:27 +0000 (11:58 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:29:24 +0000 (16:29 -0400)
When copying in a struct msghdr from the user, if the user has set the
msg_namelen parameter to a negative value it gets clamped to a valid
size due to a comparison between signed and unsigned values.

Ensure the syscall errors when the user passes in a negative value.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/socket.c

index 879933aaed4c07ecd9cdad1809939ff729a588a7..32df5847efa380b2cb74d9d0a1af971f730d553f 100644 (file)
@@ -1985,6 +1985,10 @@ static int copy_msghdr_from_user(struct msghdr *kmsg,
 {
        if (copy_from_user(kmsg, umsg, sizeof(struct msghdr)))
                return -EFAULT;
+
+       if (kmsg->msg_namelen < 0)
+               return -EINVAL;
+
        if (kmsg->msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage))
                kmsg->msg_namelen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage);
        return 0;
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