Re: [PATCH] sctp: fix -ENOMEM result with invalid user space pointer in sendto() syscall

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From: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:23:16 +0200

> Consider the following program, that sets the second argument to the
> sendto() syscall incorrectly:
 ...
> We get -ENOMEM:
> 
>  $ strace -e sendto ./demo
>  sendto(3, NULL, 1, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(11111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
> 
> Propagate the error code from sctp_user_addto_chunk(), so that we will
> tell user space what actually went wrong:
> 
>  $ strace -e sendto ./demo
>  sendto(3, NULL, 1, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(11111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
> 
> Noticed while running Trinity (the syscall fuzzer).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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