From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:49:19 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: econet: disallow NULL remote addr for sendmsg(), fixes CVE-2010-3849
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~9833^2~79^2^2~15
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ca62aac185300f80dad0e412c1033d2ef8a1b44;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

econet: disallow NULL remote addr for sendmsg(), fixes CVE-2010-3849

commit fa0e846494792e722d817b9d3d625a4ef4896c96 upstream.

Later parts of econet_sendmsg() rely on saddr != NULL, so return early
with EINVAL if NULL was passed otherwise an oops may occur.

Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/net/econet/af_econet.c b/net/econet/af_econet.c
index dc54bd0d083b..13bc40f47a50 100644
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -297,23 +297,14 @@ static int econet_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 
 	mutex_lock(&econet_mutex);
 
-	if (saddr == NULL) {
-		struct econet_sock *eo = ec_sk(sk);
-
-		addr.station = eo->station;
-		addr.net     = eo->net;
-		port	     = eo->port;
-		cb	     = eo->cb;
-	} else {
-		if (msg->msg_namelen < sizeof(struct sockaddr_ec)) {
-			mutex_unlock(&econet_mutex);
-			return -EINVAL;
-		}
-		addr.station = saddr->addr.station;
-		addr.net = saddr->addr.net;
-		port = saddr->port;
-		cb = saddr->cb;
-	}
+        if (saddr == NULL || msg->msg_namelen < sizeof(struct sockaddr_ec)) {
+                mutex_unlock(&econet_mutex);
+                return -EINVAL;
+        }
+        addr.station = saddr->addr.station;
+        addr.net = saddr->addr.net;
+        port = saddr->port;
+        cb = saddr->cb;
 
 	/* Look for a device with the right network number. */
 	dev = net2dev_map[addr.net];
@@ -351,7 +342,6 @@ static int econet_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 
 		eb = (struct ec_cb *)&skb->cb;
 
-		/* BUG: saddr may be NULL */
 		eb->cookie = saddr->cookie;
 		eb->sec = *saddr;
 		eb->sent = ec_tx_done;