[RFC bluetooth-next 0/2] ieee802154: socket: fix buffer overflow

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Hi,

this is some critical bug fix here and I don't know how do deal with that now.
I don't know if you can "get root" by this security issue. But the socket interface
can be simple loaded by user via module-autoloading while using the address family.
Maybe there is no security issue and the buffers are cutted off. I don't know, but
there is definitely something wrong here.

In my opinion af_ieee802154 should go to stable (bluetooth), but this will break
the complete userspace interface for every application. I think there are no many
users so I will simple send

Patch 1/2 "af_ieee802154: fix struct ieee802154_addr_sa size"

to bluetooth. This is a RFC to talk about this issue and if somebody knows a better
way please tell that here. Note also all userspace applications need to be updated
after this patch. I really don't know how to deal with such issue and CC here a lot
of well known linux hackers and would be glad if I get any suggestions about that.

Or maybe I should go to the netdev mailinglist with this issue.

- Alex

Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Werner Almesberger <werner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Alexander Aring (2):
  af_ieee802154: fix struct ieee802154_addr_sa size
  ieee802154: socket: add BUILD_BUG_ON for cast check

 include/net/af_ieee802154.h | 2 +-
 net/ieee802154/socket.c     | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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