This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: sctp: fix smatch warning in sctp_send_asconf_del_ip to the 3.11-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-fix-smatch-warning-in-sctp_send_asconf_del_ip.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 965ed319df7e6b4e9d85c916bcb8f7f05fc0cdda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 20:51:21 +0200 Subject: net: sctp: fix smatch warning in sctp_send_asconf_del_ip From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 88362ad8f9a6cea787420b57cc27ccacef000dbe ] 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> Acked-By: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/socket.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/sctp/socket.c +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c @@ -812,6 +812,9 @@ static int sctp_send_asconf_del_ip(struc 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. Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.11/net-sctp-rfc4443-do-not-report-icmp-redirects-to-user-space.patch queue-3.11/net-sctp-fix-ipv6-ipsec-encryption-bug-in-sctp_v6_xmit.patch queue-3.11/net-sctp-fix-bug-in-sctp_poll-for-sock_select_err_queue.patch queue-3.11/net-fib-fib6_add-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference.patch queue-3.11/net-flow_dissector-fix-thoff-for-ipproto_ah.patch queue-3.11/net-sctp-fix-smatch-warning-in-sctp_send_asconf_del_ip.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html