Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: cleanly handle kernel vs user buffers for ->msg_control

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 09:18:36AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Please try the following syzbot repro, since it crashes after your patch.

Doesn't crash here, but I could totally see why it could depending
in the stack initialization.  Please try the patch below - these
msghdr intance were something I missed because they weren't using
any highlevel recvmsg interfaces.  I'll do another round of audits
to see if there is anything else.


diff --git a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
index 18d05403d3b52..a0e50cc57e545 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
@@ -1075,6 +1075,7 @@ static int do_ipv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, 
int optname,
                msg.msg_control = optval;
                msg.msg_controllen = len;
                msg.msg_flags = flags;
+               msg.msg_control_is_user = true;
 
                lock_sock(sk);
                skb = np->pktoptions;