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Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage
Date 2016-11-08 16:50 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:43:09AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Don't pass a size larger than iov_len to kernel_sendmsg().
> Otherwise it will cause a NULL pointer deref when kernel_sendmsg()
> returns with rv < size.
> 
> Although the issue exists since day 0, only on non-ancient kernels
> that contain change 57be5bdad759 ("ip: convert tcp_sendmsg() to iov_iter
> primitives") it seems to trigger [0][1][2][3][4].

The real fix here is to convert it to the right primitive, e.g. take
Al's patch from here:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/commit/?h=work.sendmsg&id=7a4992299554a9e1ed3c4540bcfa9e40aa9a6376

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[PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-11-08 11:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-11-08 15:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-11-08 18:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> - 2016-11-09 16:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-11-09 16:50 +0100
          Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> - 2016-11-09 18:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-11-09 18:00 +0100
          [PATCH v2] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage - potential NULL deref Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> - 2016-11-09 23:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage - potential NULL  deref Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-11-10 00:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Christoph Lechleitner <christoph.lechleitner@iteg.at> - 2016-11-08 15:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-11-08 16:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-11-08 17:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] drbd: Fix kernel_sendmsg() usage Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-11-08 17:20 +0100

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