The bonds check to prevent buffer overlflow was not exactly right. It still allowed overflow of up to 8 bytes which is sizeof(struct sctp_authkey). Since optlen is already checked against the size of that struct, we are guaranteed not to cause interger overflow either. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@xxxxxx> --- net/sctp/socket.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c index afa952e..9b9b2c3 100644 --- a/net/sctp/socket.c +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c @@ -3144,7 +3144,7 @@ static int sctp_setsockopt_auth_key(struct sock *sk, goto out; } - if (authkey->sca_keylength > optlen) { + if (authkey->sca_keylength > optlen - sizeof(struct sctp_authkey)) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; } -- 1.5.2.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html