On 02/05/2016 05:30 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> The present unix_stream_read_generic contains various code sequences of
> the form
>
> err = -EDISASTER;
> if (<test>)
>       goto out;
>
> This has the unfortunate side effect of possibly causing the error code
> to bleed through to the final
>
> out:
>       return copied ? : err;
>
> and then to be wrongly returned if no data was copied because the caller
> didn't supply a data buffer, as demonstrated by the program available at
>
> http://pad.lv/1540731
>
> Change it such that err is only set if an error condition was detected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@mobileactivedefense.com>
> ---
>
> With proper subject this time (at least I hope so).
>
> diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> index 49d5093..138787d 100644
> --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
> +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
> @@ -2277,13 +2277,15 @@ static int unix_stream_read_generic(struct 
> unix_stream_read_state *state)
>       size_t size = state->size;
>       unsigned int last_len;
>  
> -     err = -EINVAL;
> -     if (sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED)
> +     if (sk->sk_state != TCP_ESTABLISHED) {
> +             err = -EINVAL;
>               goto out;
> +     }
>  
> -     err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> -     if (flags & MSG_OOB)
> +     if (flags & MSG_OOB) {
> +             err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>               goto out;
> +     }
>  
>       target = sock_rcvlowat(sk, flags & MSG_WAITALL, size);
>       timeo = sock_rcvtimeo(sk, noblock);
> @@ -2329,9 +2331,11 @@ again:
>                               goto unlock;
>  
>                       unix_state_unlock(sk);
> -                     err = -EAGAIN;
> -                     if (!timeo)
> +                     if (!timeo) {
> +                             err = -EAGAIN;
>                               break;
> +                     }
> +
>                       mutex_unlock(&u->readlock);
>  
>                       timeo = unix_stream_data_wait(sk, timeo, last,
I tested your patch, Rainer.  I can confirm that it fixes the reported
bug[0].

Thanks for the quick response!

Joe

[0] http://pad.lv/1540731


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