On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 06:31:13AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 12:21:32PM +0000, Simon Horman wrote: > > > > @@ -2926,16 +2900,18 @@ static int do_recvmmsg(int fd, struct mmsghdr __user *mmsg, > > > > > > datagrams = 0; > > > > > > - sock = sockfd_lookup_light(fd, &err, &fput_needed); > > > - if (!sock) > > > - return err; > > > + CLASS(fd, f)(fd); > > > + > > > + if (fd_empty(f)) > > > + return -EBADF; > > > + sock = sock_from_file(fd_file(f)); > > > + if (unlikely(!sock)) > > > + return -ENOTSOCK; > > > > Hi Al, > > > > There is an unconditional check on err down on line 2977. > > However, with the above change err is now only conditionally > > set before we reach that line. Are you sure that it will always > > be initialised by the time line 2977 is reached? > > Nice catch, thank you. It is possible, if you call recvmmsg(2) with > zero vlen and MSG_ERRQUEUE in flags. Which is not going to be done in > any well-behaving code, making it really nasty - nothing like a kernel > bug that shows up only when trying to narrow down a userland bug upstream > of the syscall in question ;-/ Ouch. > AFAICS, that's the only bug of that sort in this commit - all other > places that used to rely upon successful sockfd_lookup_light() zeroing > err have an unconditional assignment to err shortly downstream of that. Yes, I was unable to find any others either. > > Fix folded into commit in question, branch force-pushed; incremental follows > (I would rather not spam the lists with repost of the entire patchset for > the sake of that): Thanks, will run some checks for good measure. But the fix below looks good to me. > diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c > index fb3806a11f94..c3ac02d060c0 100644 > --- a/net/socket.c > +++ b/net/socket.c > @@ -2885,7 +2885,7 @@ static int do_recvmmsg(int fd, struct mmsghdr __user *mmsg, > unsigned int vlen, unsigned int flags, > struct timespec64 *timeout) > { > - int err, datagrams; > + int err = 0, datagrams; > struct socket *sock; > struct mmsghdr __user *entry; > struct compat_mmsghdr __user *compat_entry; >