Thread (57 messages) 57 messages, 4 authors, 2012-07-11

[ 29/48] net: sock: validate data_len before allocating skb in sock_alloc_send_pskb()

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-09 14:43:32
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], networking [sockets], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Kuniyuki Iwashima, Willem de Bruijn, Linus Torvalds

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jason Wang <redacted>

[ Upstream commit cc9b17ad29ecaa20bfe426a8d4dbfb94b13ff1cc ]

We need to validate the number of pages consumed by data_len, otherwise frags
array could be overflowed by userspace. So this patch validate data_len and
return -EMSGSIZE when data_len may occupies more frags than MAX_SKB_FRAGS.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
---
 net/core/sock.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index b23f174..8d095b9 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1497,6 +1497,11 @@ struct sk_buff *sock_alloc_send_pskb(struct sock *sk, unsigned long header_len,
 	gfp_t gfp_mask;
 	long timeo;
 	int err;
+	int npages = (data_len + (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+	err = -EMSGSIZE;
+	if (npages > MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
+		goto failure;
 
 	gfp_mask = sk->sk_allocation;
 	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)
@@ -1515,14 +1520,12 @@ struct sk_buff *sock_alloc_send_pskb(struct sock *sk, unsigned long header_len,
 		if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) < sk->sk_sndbuf) {
 			skb = alloc_skb(header_len, gfp_mask);
 			if (skb) {
-				int npages;
 				int i;
 
 				/* No pages, we're done... */
 				if (!data_len)
 					break;
 
-				npages = (data_len + (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 				skb->truesize += data_len;
 				skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags = npages;
 				for (i = 0; i < npages; i++) {

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