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tipc: don't use memcpy to copy from user space

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tipc_msg_build() calls skb_copy_to_linear_data_offset() to copy data
from user space to kernel space. However, the latter function does
in its turn call memcpy() to perform the actual copying. This poses
an obvious security and robustness risk, since memcpy() never makes
any validity check on the pointer it is copying from.

To correct this, we the replace the offending function call with
a call to memcpy_fromiovecend(), which uses copy_from_user() to
perform the copying.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ying Xue 2013-10-18 07:23:14 +02:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 7cc7c5e54b
commit 5c0a0fc81f
1 changed files with 9 additions and 13 deletions
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net/tipc/msg.c
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@ -76,10 +76,11 @@ int tipc_msg_build(struct tipc_msg *hdr, struct iovec const *msg_sect,
u32 num_sect, unsigned int total_len, int max_size,
struct sk_buff **buf)
{
int dsz, sz, hsz, pos, res, cnt;
int dsz, sz, hsz;
unsigned char *to;
dsz = total_len;
pos = hsz = msg_hdr_sz(hdr);
hsz = msg_hdr_sz(hdr);
sz = hsz + dsz;
msg_set_size(hdr, sz);
if (unlikely(sz > max_size)) {
@ -91,16 +92,11 @@ int tipc_msg_build(struct tipc_msg *hdr, struct iovec const *msg_sect,
if (!(*buf))
return -ENOMEM;
skb_copy_to_linear_data(*buf, hdr, hsz);
for (res = 1, cnt = 0; res && (cnt < num_sect); cnt++) {
skb_copy_to_linear_data_offset(*buf, pos,
msg_sect[cnt].iov_base,
msg_sect[cnt].iov_len);
pos += msg_sect[cnt].iov_len;
to = (*buf)->data + hsz;
if (total_len && memcpy_fromiovecend(to, msg_sect, 0, dsz)) {
kfree_skb(*buf);
*buf = NULL;
return -EFAULT;
}
if (likely(res))
return dsz;
kfree_skb(*buf);
*buf = NULL;
return -EFAULT;
return dsz;
}