From: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 15:34:32 +0000 (+0100) Subject: sctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg: avoid using current->nsproxy X-Git-Tag: v6.13-rc7~29^2~1^2~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea62dd1383913b5999f3d16ae99d411f41b528d4;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git sctp: sysctl: cookie_hmac_alg: avoid using current->nsproxy As mentioned in a previous commit of this series, using the 'net' structure via 'current' is not recommended for different reasons: - Inconsistency: getting info from the reader's/writer's netns vs only from the opener's netns. - current->nsproxy can be NULL in some cases, resulting in an 'Oops' (null-ptr-deref), e.g. when the current task is exiting, as spotted by syzbot [1] using acct(2). The 'net' structure can be obtained from the table->data using container_of(). Note that table->data could also be used directly, as this is the only member needed from the 'net' structure, but that would increase the size of this fix, to use '*data' everywhere 'net->sctp.sctp_hmac_alg' is used. Fixes: 3c68198e7511 ("sctp: Make hmac algorithm selection for cookie generation dynamic") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/67769ecb.050a0220.3a8527.003f.GAE@google.com [1] Suggested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250108-net-sysctl-current-nsproxy-v1-4-5df34b2083e8@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- diff --git a/net/sctp/sysctl.c b/net/sctp/sysctl.c index e5a5af343c4c9..9848d19630a4f 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sysctl.c +++ b/net/sctp/sysctl.c @@ -387,7 +387,8 @@ static struct ctl_table sctp_net_table[] = { static int proc_sctp_do_hmac_alg(const struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { - struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns; + struct net *net = container_of(ctl->data, struct net, + sctp.sctp_hmac_alg); struct ctl_table tbl; bool changed = false; char *none = "none";