From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit 24599e61b7552673dd85971cf5a35369cd8c119e ] When writing to the sysctl field net.sctp.auth_enable, it can well be that the user buffer we handed over to proc_dointvec() via proc_sctp_do_auth() handler contains something other than integers. In that case, we would set an uninitialized 4-byte value from the stack to net->sctp.auth_enable that can be leaked back when reading the sysctl variable, and it can unintentionally turn auth_enable on/off based on the stack content since auth_enable is interpreted as a boolean. Fix it up by making sure proc_dointvec() returned sucessfully. Fixes: b14878ccb7fa ("net: sctp: cache auth_enable per endpoint") Reported-by: Florian Westphal <fwestpha@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/sysctl.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/sysctl.c b/net/sctp/sysctl.c index 976c89d5295b..968355f0de60 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sysctl.c +++ b/net/sctp/sysctl.c @@ -361,8 +361,7 @@ static int proc_sctp_do_auth(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write, tbl.data = &net->sctp.auth_enable; ret = proc_dointvec(&tbl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); - - if (write) { + if (write && ret == 0) { struct sock *sk = net->sctp.ctl_sock; net->sctp.auth_enable = new_value; -- 2.0.1 -- 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