Brad Spencer provided a detailed report [0] that when calling getsockopt()
for AF_NETLINK, some SOL_NETLINK options set only 1 byte even though such
options require at least sizeof(int) as length.
The options return a flag value that fits into 1 byte, but such behaviour
confuses users who do not initialise the variable before calling
getsockopt() and do not strictly check the returned value as char.
Currently, netlink_getsockopt() uses put_user() to copy data to optlen and
optval, but put_user() casts the data based on the pointer, char *optval.
As a result, only 1 byte is set to optval.
To avoid this behaviour, we need to use copy_to_user() or cast optval for
put_user().
Note that this changes the behaviour on big-endian systems, but we document
that the size of optval is int in the man page.
$ man 7 netlink
...
Socket options
To set or get a netlink socket option, call getsockopt(2) to read
or setsockopt(2) to write the option with the option level argument
set to SOL_NETLINK. Unless otherwise noted, optval is a pointer to
an int.
Fixes: 9a4595bc7e ("[NETLINK]: Add set/getsockopt options to support more than 32 groups")
Fixes: be0c22a46c ("netlink: add NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option")
Fixes: 38938bfe34 ("netlink: add NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag")
Fixes: 0a6a3a23ea ("netlink: add NETLINK_CAP_ACK socket option")
Fixes: 2d4bc93368 ("netlink: extended ACK reporting")
Fixes: 89d35528d1 ("netlink: Add new socket option to enable strict checking on dumps")
Reported-by: Brad Spencer <bspencer@blackberry.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZD7VkNWFfp22kTDt@datsun.rim.net/
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230421185255.94606-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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