From 6a2a2b3ae0759843b22c929881cc184b00cc63ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 14:49:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] net:socket: set msg_namelen to 0 if msg_name is passed as
 NULL in msghdr struct from userland.

Linux manpage for recvmsg and sendmsg calls does not explicitly mention setting msg_namelen to 0 when
msg_name passed set as NULL. When developers don't set msg_namelen member in msghdr, it might contain garbage
value which will fail the validation check and sendmsg and recvmsg calls from kernel will return EINVAL. This will
break old binaries and any code for which there is no access to source code.
To fix this, we set msg_namelen to 0 when msg_name is passed as NULL from userland.

Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/socket.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 2e2586e2dee191..4cdbc107606f03 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1996,6 +1996,9 @@ static int copy_msghdr_from_user(struct msghdr *kmsg,
 	if (copy_from_user(kmsg, umsg, sizeof(struct msghdr)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
+	if (kmsg->msg_name == NULL)
+		kmsg->msg_namelen = 0;
+
 	if (kmsg->msg_namelen < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
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