This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled decnet: dn_rtmsg: Improve input length sanitization in dnrmg_receive_user_skb to the 3.18-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: decnet-dn_rtmsg-improve-input-length-sanitization-in-dnrmg_receive_user_skb.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Jun 29 19:45:34 CEST 2017 From: Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 16:14:29 +0200 Subject: decnet: dn_rtmsg: Improve input length sanitization in dnrmg_receive_user_skb From: Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit dd0da17b209ed91f39872766634ca967c170ada1 ] Verify that the length of the socket buffer is sufficient to cover the nlmsghdr structure before accessing the nlh->nlmsg_len field for further input sanitization. If the client only supplies 1-3 bytes of data in sk_buff, then nlh->nlmsg_len remains partially uninitialized and contains leftover memory from the corresponding kernel allocation. Operating on such data may result in indeterminate evaluation of the nlmsg_len < sizeof(*nlh) expression. The bug was discovered by a runtime instrumentation designed to detect use of uninitialized memory in the kernel. The patch prevents this and other similar tools (e.g. KMSAN) from flagging this behavior in the future. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/decnet/netfilter/dn_rtmsg.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/decnet/netfilter/dn_rtmsg.c +++ b/net/decnet/netfilter/dn_rtmsg.c @@ -104,7 +104,9 @@ static inline void dnrmg_receive_user_sk { struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb); - if (nlh->nlmsg_len < sizeof(*nlh) || skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len) + if (skb->len < sizeof(*nlh) || + nlh->nlmsg_len < sizeof(*nlh) || + skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len) return; if (!netlink_capable(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mjurczyk@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/decnet-dn_rtmsg-improve-input-length-sanitization-in-dnrmg_receive_user_skb.patch