Patch "net/sctp: Always set scope_id in sctp_inet6_skb_msgname" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net/sctp: Always set scope_id in sctp_inet6_skb_msgname

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:
     net-sctp-always-set-scope_id-in-sctp_inet6_skb_msgname.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 Tue Nov 21 15:28:16 CET 2017
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:17:48 -0600
Subject: net/sctp: Always set scope_id in sctp_inet6_skb_msgname

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 7c8a61d9ee1df0fb4747879fa67a99614eb62fec ]

Alexandar Potapenko while testing the kernel with KMSAN and syzkaller
discovered that in some configurations sctp would leak 4 bytes of
kernel stack.

Working with his reproducer I discovered that those 4 bytes that
are leaked is the scope id of an ipv6 address returned by recvmsg.

With a little code inspection and a shrewd guess I discovered that
sctp_inet6_skb_msgname only initializes the scope_id field for link
local ipv6 addresses to the interface index the link local address
pertains to instead of initializing the scope_id field for all ipv6
addresses.

That is almost reasonable as scope_id's are meaniningful only for link
local addresses.  Set the scope_id in all other cases to 0 which is
not a valid interface index to make it clear there is nothing useful
in the scope_id field.

There should be no danger of breaking userspace as the stack leak
guaranteed that previously meaningless random data was being returned.

Fixes: 372f525b495c ("SCTP:  Resync with LKSCTP tree.")
History-tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/sctp/ipv6.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/net/sctp/ipv6.c
+++ b/net/sctp/ipv6.c
@@ -805,6 +805,8 @@ static void sctp_inet6_skb_msgname(struc
 		if (ipv6_addr_type(&addr->v6.sin6_addr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL) {
 			struct sctp_ulpevent *ev = sctp_skb2event(skb);
 			addr->v6.sin6_scope_id = ev->iif;
+		} else {
+			addr->v6.sin6_scope_id = 0;
 		}
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.18/net-sctp-always-set-scope_id-in-sctp_inet6_skb_msgname.patch



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