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[PATCH net] net/sctp: Always set scope_id in sctp_inet6_skb_msgname

From: Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
Date: 2017-11-16 04:18:25
Also in: linux-sctp, lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], sctp protocol, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, Xin Long, Linus Torvalds

Alexandar Potapenko while testing the kernel with KMSAN and syzkaller
discovered that in some configurations sctp would leak 4 bytes of
kernel stack.

Working with his reproducer I discovered that those 4 bytes that
are leaked is the scope id of an ipv6 address returned by recvmsg.

With a little code inspection and a shrewd guess I discovered that
sctp_inet6_skb_msgname only initializes the scope_id field for link
local ipv6 addresses to the interface index the link local address
pertains to instead of initializing the scope_id field for all ipv6
addresses.

That is almost reasonable as scope_id's are meaniningful only for link
local addresses.  Set the scope_id in all other cases to 0 which is
not a valid interface index to make it clear there is nothing useful
in the scope_id field.

There should be no danger of breaking userspace as the stack leak
guaranteed that previously meaningless random data was being returned.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 372f525b495c ("SCTP:  Resync with LKSCTP tree.")
History-tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>
---
 net/sctp/ipv6.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sctp/ipv6.c b/net/sctp/ipv6.c
index a6dfa86c0201..3b18085e3b10 100644
--- a/net/sctp/ipv6.c
+++ b/net/sctp/ipv6.c
@@ -807,9 +807,10 @@ static void sctp_inet6_skb_msgname(struct sk_buff *skb, char *msgname,
 		addr->v6.sin6_flowinfo = 0;
 		addr->v6.sin6_port = sh->source;
 		addr->v6.sin6_addr = ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr;
-		if (ipv6_addr_type(&addr->v6.sin6_addr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) {
+		if (ipv6_addr_type(&addr->v6.sin6_addr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)
 			addr->v6.sin6_scope_id = sctp_v6_skb_iif(skb);
-		}
+		else
+			addr->v6.sin6_scope_id = 0;
 	}
 
 	*addr_len = sctp_v6_addr_to_user(sctp_sk(skb->sk), addr);
-- 
2.14.1
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