From: Alexander Potapenko Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:49:02 +0000 (+0100) Subject: netlink: make sure nladdr has correct size in netlink_connect() X-Git-Tag: v3.2.102~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=85612401b97f42ca3addf3d5786cc6de4fcb8fda;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git netlink: make sure nladdr has correct size in netlink_connect() commit 7880287981b60a6808f39f297bb66936e8bdf57a upstream. KMSAN reports use of uninitialized memory in the case when |alen| is smaller than sizeof(struct sockaddr_nl), and therefore |nladdr| isn't fully copied from the userspace. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Fixes: 1da177e4c3f41524 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index 2369e9620aa4c..d1017ad64edc7 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -706,6 +706,9 @@ static int netlink_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr, if (addr->sa_family != AF_NETLINK) return -EINVAL; + if (alen < sizeof(struct sockaddr_nl)) + return -EINVAL; + /* Only superuser is allowed to send multicasts */ if (nladdr->nl_groups && !netlink_capable(sock, NL_NONROOT_SEND)) return -EPERM;