This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen to the 3.10-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-socket-error-on-a-negative-msg_namelen.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 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 Fri Apr 11 08:46:36 PDT 2014 From: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:58:27 +0000 Subject: net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen From: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit dbb490b96584d4e958533fb637f08b557f505657 ] When copying in a struct msghdr from the user, if the user has set the msg_namelen parameter to a negative value it gets clamped to a valid size due to a comparison between signed and unsigned values. Ensure the syscall errors when the user passes in a negative value. Signed-off-by: Matthew Leach <matthew.leach@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/socket.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -1964,6 +1964,10 @@ static int copy_msghdr_from_user(struct { if (copy_from_user(kmsg, umsg, sizeof(struct msghdr))) return -EFAULT; + + if (kmsg->msg_namelen < 0) + return -EINVAL; + if (kmsg->msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)) kmsg->msg_namelen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage); return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from matthew.leach@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/net-socket-error-on-a-negative-msg_namelen.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