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net: add BUG_ON if kernel advertises msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sock…
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…addr_storage)

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 <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Hannes Frederic Sowa authored and David S. Miller committed Nov 21, 2013
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion net/socket.c
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Expand Up @@ -221,12 +221,13 @@ 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))
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