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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-09-27 20:24:54 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-09-27 20:24:54 -0700
commit01db403cf99f739f86903314a489fb420e0e254f (patch)
treebf04fbfb3ed88d6cf7abeea1ab5209be36907882 /net/core/iovec.c
parent0b20406cda621c2495d10baab1e87127ceb43337 (diff)
downloadlinux-01db403cf99f739f86903314a489fb420e0e254f.tar.gz
tcp: Fix >4GB writes on 64-bit.
Fixes kernel bugzilla #16603

tcp_sendmsg() truncates iov_len to an 'int' which a 4GB write to write
zero bytes, for example.

There is also the problem higher up of how verify_iovec() works.  It
wants to prevent the total length from looking like an error return
value.

However it does this using 'int', but syscalls return 'long' (and
thus signed 64-bit on 64-bit machines).  So it could trigger
false-positives on 64-bit as written.  So fix it to use 'long'.

Reported-by: Olaf Bonorden <bono@onlinehome.de>
Reported-by: Daniel Büse <dbuese@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/iovec.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/iovec.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/iovec.c b/net/core/iovec.c
index 1cd98df412df..e6b133b77ccb 100644
--- a/net/core/iovec.c
+++ b/net/core/iovec.c
@@ -35,9 +35,10 @@
  *	in any case.
  */
 
-int verify_iovec(struct msghdr *m, struct iovec *iov, struct sockaddr *address, int mode)
+long verify_iovec(struct msghdr *m, struct iovec *iov, struct sockaddr *address, int mode)
 {
-	int size, err, ct;
+	int size, ct;
+	long err;
 
 	if (m->msg_namelen) {
 		if (mode == VERIFY_READ) {