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[net] kcm: return immediately after copy_from_user() failure

Message ID 1490292211-19767-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Cong Wang March 23, 2017, 6:03 p.m. UTC 
There is no reason to continue after a copy_from_user()
failure.

Fixes: ab7ac4eb9832 ("kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor module")
Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
---
 net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller March 24, 2017, 8:14 p.m. UTC | #1 
From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:03:31 -0700

> There is no reason to continue after a copy_from_user()
> failure.
> 
> Fixes: ab7ac4eb9832 ("kcm: Kernel Connection Multiplexor module")
> Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable and this bug could make the kernel
use uninitialized on-stack data.
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diff --git a/net/kcm/kcmsock.c b/net/kcm/kcmsock.c
index 309062f..31762f7 100644
--- a/net/kcm/kcmsock.c
+++ b/net/kcm/kcmsock.c
@@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@  static int kcm_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		struct kcm_attach info;
 
 		if (copy_from_user(&info, (void __user *)arg, sizeof(info)))
-			err = -EFAULT;
+			return -EFAULT;
 
 		err = kcm_attach_ioctl(sock, &info);
 
@@ -1697,7 +1697,7 @@  static int kcm_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		struct kcm_unattach info;
 
 		if (copy_from_user(&info, (void __user *)arg, sizeof(info)))
-			err = -EFAULT;
+			return -EFAULT;
 
 		err = kcm_unattach_ioctl(sock, &info);
 
@@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@  static int kcm_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		struct socket *newsock = NULL;
 
 		if (copy_from_user(&info, (void __user *)arg, sizeof(info)))
-			err = -EFAULT;
+			return -EFAULT;
 
 		err = kcm_clone(sock, &info, &newsock);