3.16.83-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 42d84c8490f9f0931786f1623191fcab397c3d64 upstream. Doing so, we save one call to get data we already have in the struct. Also, since there is no guarantee that getname use sockaddr_ll parameter beyond its size, we add a little bit of security here. It should do not do beyond MAX_ADDR_LEN, but syzbot found that ax25_getname writes more (72 bytes, the size of full_sockaddr_ax25, versus 20 + 32 bytes of sockaddr_ll + MAX_ADDR_LEN in syzbot repro). Fixes: 3a4d5c94e9593 ("vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server") Reported-by: syzbot+f2a62d07a5198c819c7b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: Also delete "uaddr_len" variable] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c @@ -843,11 +843,7 @@ static int vhost_net_release(struct inod static struct socket *get_raw_socket(int fd) { - struct { - struct sockaddr_ll sa; - char buf[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; - } uaddr; - int uaddr_len = sizeof uaddr, r; + int r; struct socket *sock = sockfd_lookup(fd, &r); if (!sock) @@ -859,12 +855,7 @@ static struct socket *get_raw_socket(int goto err; } - r = sock->ops->getname(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&uaddr.sa, - &uaddr_len, 0); - if (r) - goto err; - - if (uaddr.sa.sll_family != AF_PACKET) { + if (sock->sk->sk_family != AF_PACKET) { r = -EPFNOSUPPORT; goto err; }