linux/net/netlink
Kuniyuki Iwashima d913d32cc2 netlink: Use copy_to_user() for optval in netlink_getsockopt().
Brad Spencer provided a detailed report [0] that when calling getsockopt()
for AF_NETLINK, some SOL_NETLINK options set only 1 byte even though such
options require at least sizeof(int) as length.

The options return a flag value that fits into 1 byte, but such behaviour
confuses users who do not initialise the variable before calling
getsockopt() and do not strictly check the returned value as char.

Currently, netlink_getsockopt() uses put_user() to copy data to optlen and
optval, but put_user() casts the data based on the pointer, char *optval.
As a result, only 1 byte is set to optval.

To avoid this behaviour, we need to use copy_to_user() or cast optval for
put_user().

Note that this changes the behaviour on big-endian systems, but we document
that the size of optval is int in the man page.

  $ man 7 netlink
  ...
  Socket options
       To set or get a netlink socket option, call getsockopt(2) to read
       or setsockopt(2) to write the option with the option level argument
       set to SOL_NETLINK.  Unless otherwise noted, optval is a pointer to
       an int.

Fixes: 9a4595bc7e ("[NETLINK]: Add set/getsockopt options to support more than 32 groups")
Fixes: be0c22a46c ("netlink: add NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option")
Fixes: 38938bfe34 ("netlink: add NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag")
Fixes: 0a6a3a23ea ("netlink: add NETLINK_CAP_ACK socket option")
Fixes: 2d4bc93368 ("netlink: extended ACK reporting")
Fixes: 89d35528d1 ("netlink: Add new socket option to enable strict checking on dumps")
Reported-by: Brad Spencer <bspencer@blackberry.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZD7VkNWFfp22kTDt@datsun.rim.net/
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230421185255.94606-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2023-04-24 18:05:36 -07:00
..
af_netlink.c netlink: Use copy_to_user() for optval in netlink_getsockopt(). 2023-04-24 18:05:36 -07:00
af_netlink.h
diag.c
genetlink.c genetlink: Use string_is_terminated() helper 2023-02-09 22:30:24 -08:00
Kconfig treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
Makefile netlink: add infrastructure to expose policies to userspace 2020-04-30 17:51:42 -07:00
policy.c net: genl: fix error path memory leak in policy dumping 2022-08-18 10:20:48 -07:00