[Bridge] [PATCH 25/26] net: pass a sockptr_t into ->setsockopt

Eric Dumazet
2020-08-06T22:21:25Z

On 7/22/20 11:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Rework the remaining setsockopt code to pass a sockptr_t instead of a
> plain user pointer.  This removes the last remaining set_fs(KERNEL_DS)
> outside of architecture specific code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Acked-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan at datenfreihafen.org> [ieee802154]
> ---


...

> diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> index 594e01ad670aa6..874f01cd7aec42 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c
> @@ -972,13 +972,13 @@ static int rawv6_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct
msghdr *msg, size_t len)
>  }
>

...

>  static int do_rawv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
> -			    char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen)
> +			       sockptr_t optval, unsigned int optlen)
>  {
>  	struct raw6_sock *rp = raw6_sk(sk);
>  	int val;
>
> -	if (get_user(val, (int __user *)optval))
> +	if (copy_from_sockptr(&val, optval, sizeof(val)))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>

converting get_user(...)   to  copy_from_sockptr(...) really assumed the optlen
has been validated to be >= sizeof(int) earlier.

Which is not always the case, for example here.

User application can fool us passing optlen=0, and a user pointer of exactly
TASK_SIZE-1