Hi,
Sorry for that I didn't respond to that warning.
You are right, laddr == NULL && addrcnt == 1 is the indicator of the function called by
asconf_mgmt().
Since your patch is actually redundant, I would suggest putting comment on the
line of "if ((laddr == NULL) && (addrcnt == 1)) {", and/or on the checking in your patch.
Cheers,
- Michio
On Sep 7, 2013, at 8:51 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> This was originally reported in [1] and posted by Neil Horman [2], he said:
>
> Fix up a missed null pointer check in the asconf code. If we don't find
> a local address, but we pass in an address length of more than 1, we may
> dereference a NULL laddr pointer. Currently this can't happen, as the only
> users of the function pass in the value 1 as the addrcnt parameter, but
> its not hot path, and it doesn't hurt to check for NULL should that ever
> be the case.
>
> The callpath from sctp_asconf_mgmt() looks okay. But this could be triggered
> from sctp_setsockopt_bindx() call with SCTP_BINDX_REM_ADDR and addrcnt > 1
> while passing all possible addresses from the bind list to SCTP_BINDX_REM_ADDR
> so that we do *not* find a single address in the association's bind address
> list that is not in the packed array of addresses. If this happens when we
> have an established association with ASCONF-capable peers, then we could get
> a NULL pointer dereference as we only check for laddr == NULL && addrcnt == 1
> and call later sctp_make_asconf_update_ip() with NULL laddr.
>
> BUT: this actually won't happen as sctp_bindx_rem() will catch such a case
> and return with an error earlier. As this is incredably unintuitive and error
> prone, add a check to catch at least future bugs here. As Neil says, its not
> hot path. Introduced by 8a07eb0a5 ("sctp: Add ASCONF operation on the
> single-homed host").
>
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sctp/msg02132.html
> [2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sctp/msg02133.html
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michio Honda <micchie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/sctp/socket.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
> index 5462bbb..911b71b 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/socket.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
> @@ -806,6 +806,9 @@ static int sctp_send_asconf_del_ip(struct sock *sk,
> goto skip_mkasconf;
> }
>
> + if (laddr == NULL)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> /* We do not need RCU protection throughout this loop
> * because this is done under a socket lock from the
> * setsockopt call.
> --
> 1.7.11.7
>
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