Re: [PATCH] ieee802154: verify packet size before trying toallocate it

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:10:19 +0200
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Currently when sending data over datagram, the send function will attempt to
> allocate any size passed on from the userspace.
> 
> We should make sure that this size is checked and limited. The maximum size
> of an IP packet seemed like the safest limit here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Change in v2:
>  - Limit by maximum size the protocol supports.
> 
>  net/ieee802154/dgram.c |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ieee802154/dgram.c b/net/ieee802154/dgram.c
> index 6fbb2ad..628498c 100644
> --- a/net/ieee802154/dgram.c
> +++ b/net/ieee802154/dgram.c
> @@ -232,6 +232,11 @@ static int dgram_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
>  
>  	hlen = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev);
>  	tlen = dev->needed_tailroom;
> +	if (hlen + tlen + size > IEEE802154_MTU) {
> +		err = -EMSGSIZE;
> +		goto out;

What stops an overflow at this point. We'll then pass a small value to
sock_alloc_send_skb/sock_alloc_send_pskb and copy a large number of bytes
into it.

This does seem to be already broken, and not fixed by the patch ?

Alan
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