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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-12-12 23:02:36 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2015-02-04 01:34:13 -0500 |
| commit | a8866ff6a5bce7d0ec465a63bc482a85c09b0d39 (patch) | |
| tree | ba7534a7245d5230860564bb1e936a22a1c97e0c /net/netlink | |
| parent | 4c72c53be5e3c8cf319a020ea671ab0fc32ec96f (diff) | |
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netlink: make the check for "send from tx_ring" deterministic
As it is, zero msg_iovlen means that the first iovec in the kernel
array of iovecs is left uninitialized, so checking if its ->iov_base
is NULL is random. Since the real users of that thing are doing
sendto(fd, NULL, 0, ...), they are getting msg_iovlen = 1 and
msg_iov[0] = {NULL, 0}, which is what this test is trying to catch.
As suggested by davem, let's just check that msg_iovlen was 1 and
msg_iov[0].iov_base was NULL - _that_ is well-defined and it catches
what we want to catch.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index a36777b7cfb6..4fd38a612ff6 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -2298,7 +2298,12 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock, goto out; } + /* It's a really convoluted way for userland to ask for mmaped + * sendmsg(), but that's what we've got... + */ if (netlink_tx_is_mmaped(sk) && + msg->msg_iter.type == ITER_IOVEC && + msg->msg_iter.nr_segs == 1 && msg->msg_iter.iov->iov_base == NULL) { err = netlink_mmap_sendmsg(sk, msg, dst_portid, dst_group, &scm); |
