On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 11:14 AM David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> wrote:
>
> From: Willem de Bruijn
> > Sent: 26 April 2019 16:11
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 11:42 AM Willem de Bruijn
> > <willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:35 AM David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Willem de Bruijn
> > > > > Sent: 25 April 2019 14:57
> > > > ...
> > > > > > I've just done a bit of software archaeology.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Prior to 2.6.14-rc3 the send code ignored sll_halen, it was only 
> > > > > > set by the receive code.
> > > > > > So it is not surprising that old application code leaves it as zero.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The old receive code also always set msg_namelen = sizeof (struct 
> > > > > > sockaddr_ll).
> > > > > > The receive code now sets:
> > > > > >   msg_namelen = offsetof(struct sockaddr_ll, sll_addr) + 
> > > > > > saddr->sll_halen;
> > > > > > For ethernet this changes the msg_namelen from 20 to 18.
> > > > > > A side effect (no one has noticed for years) is that you can't send 
> > > > > > a reply
> > > > > > by passing back the received address buffer.
> > > > >
> > > > > Great find, thanks. I hadn't thought of going back that far, but
> > > > > clearly should in these legacy caller questions..
> > > >
> > > > Fortunately I didn't have to find the pre-git sources :-)
> > > >
> > > > > > Looking at it all again how about:
> > > > > >         char *addr = NULL;
> > > > > >         ...
> > > > > >                         err = -EINVAL;
> > > > > >                         if (msg->msg_namelen < offsetof(struct 
> > > > > > sockaddr_ll, sll_addr))
> > > > > >                                 goto out;
> > > > > >                         proto = saddr->sll_protocol;
> > > > > >                         dev = dev_get_by_index(sock_net(sk), 
> > > > > > saddr->sll_ifindex);
> > > > > >                         if (dev && sock->type == SOCK_DGRAM) {
> > > > > >                                 if (msg->msg_namelen < 
> > > > > > dev->addr_len + offsetof(struct
> > sockaddr_ll, sll_addr))
> > > > > >                                         goto out_unlock;
> > > > > >                                 addr = saddr->sll_addr;
> > > > > >                         }
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes, given the above, this looks great to me.
> >
> > Coming back to this. Both the above and two separate send/recv fixes
> > seem fine to me. Do you have a preference either way? And do you want
> > to send the fix(es) or should I?
>
> I'll let you do it - save me working out how to get valid patches off
> my Linux systems and into outlook :-)
>
> If you are going to do the recv fix the send one can keep the check
> against the full struct sockaddr_ll.

It took a bit longer than expected, sorry. In the rx one, I went with
a branch in the relatively unlikely msg->msg_name branch rather than
an unconditional zero in the packet_rcv hot path.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1091764/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1091765/

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