From 342dfc306fb32155314dad277f3c3686b83fb9f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steffen Hurrle Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:53:15 +0100 Subject: net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size This is a follow-up patch to f3d3342602f8bc ("net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic"). DECLARE_SOCKADDR validates that the structure we use for writing the name information to is not larger than the buffer which is reserved for msg->msg_name (which is 128 bytes). Also use DECLARE_SOCKADDR consistently in sendmsg code paths. Signed-off-by: Steffen Hurrle Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv6/ping.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv6/ping.c') diff --git a/net/ipv6/ping.c b/net/ipv6/ping.c index 15d23b8c2129..cd71f3a540be 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ping.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ping.c @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ int ping_v6_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, return err; if (msg->msg_name) { - struct sockaddr_in6 *u = (struct sockaddr_in6 *) msg->msg_name; + DECLARE_SOCKADDR(struct sockaddr_in6 *, u, msg->msg_name); if (msg->msg_namelen < sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6) || u->sin6_family != AF_INET6) { return -EINVAL; -- cgit v1.2.3