This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sctp: fail if no bound addresses can be used for a given scope to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sctp-fail-if-no-bound-addresses-can-be-used-for-a-gi.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 774f1a25544e12ffd29779aa76356a15a187f1ac Author: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 23 14:59:33 2023 -0300 sctp: fail if no bound addresses can be used for a given scope [ Upstream commit 458e279f861d3f61796894cd158b780765a1569f ] Currently, if you bind the socket to something like: servaddr.sin6_family = AF_INET6; servaddr.sin6_port = htons(0); servaddr.sin6_scope_id = 0; inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::1", &servaddr.sin6_addr); And then request a connect to: connaddr.sin6_family = AF_INET6; connaddr.sin6_port = htons(20000); connaddr.sin6_scope_id = if_nametoindex("lo"); inet_pton(AF_INET6, "fe88::1", &connaddr.sin6_addr); What the stack does is: - bind the socket - create a new asoc - to handle the connect - copy the addresses that can be used for the given scope - try to connect But the copy returns 0 addresses, and the effect is that it ends up trying to connect as if the socket wasn't bound, which is not the desired behavior. This unexpected behavior also allows KASLR leaks through SCTP diag interface. The fix here then is, if when trying to copy the addresses that can be used for the scope used in connect() it returns 0 addresses, bail out. This is what TCP does with a similar reproducer. Reported-by: Pietro Borrello <borrello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9fcd182f1099f86c6661f3717f63712ddd1c676c.1674496737.git.marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/sctp/bind_addr.c b/net/sctp/bind_addr.c index a825e74d01fc..614bc081ca50 100644 --- a/net/sctp/bind_addr.c +++ b/net/sctp/bind_addr.c @@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ int sctp_bind_addr_copy(struct net *net, struct sctp_bind_addr *dest, } } + /* If somehow no addresses were found that can be used with this + * scope, it's an error. + */ + if (list_empty(&dest->address_list)) + error = -ENETUNREACH; + out: if (error) sctp_bind_addr_clean(dest);