econet: disallow NULL remote addr for sendmsg(), fixes CVE-2010-3849

Later parts of econet_sendmsg() rely on saddr != NULL, so return early
with EINVAL if NULL was passed otherwise an oops may occur.

Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/econet/af_econet.c b/net/econet/af_econet.c
index f8c1ae4b41f03641f7bb7db11feb88893df65519..e366f1bef91f905a46e136bd08bf9414c74bd4fe 100644 (file)
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -297,23 +297,14 @@ static int econet_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 
        mutex_lock(&econet_mutex);
 
-       if (saddr == NULL) {
-               struct econet_sock *eo = ec_sk(sk);
-
-               addr.station = eo->station;
-               addr.net     = eo->net;
-               port         = eo->port;
-               cb           = eo->cb;
-       } else {
-               if (msg->msg_namelen < sizeof(struct sockaddr_ec)) {
-                       mutex_unlock(&econet_mutex);
-                       return -EINVAL;
-               }
-               addr.station = saddr->addr.station;
-               addr.net = saddr->addr.net;
-               port = saddr->port;
-               cb = saddr->cb;
-       }
+        if (saddr == NULL || msg->msg_namelen < sizeof(struct sockaddr_ec)) {
+                mutex_unlock(&econet_mutex);
+                return -EINVAL;
+        }
+        addr.station = saddr->addr.station;
+        addr.net = saddr->addr.net;
+        port = saddr->port;
+        cb = saddr->cb;
 
        /* Look for a device with the right network number. */
        dev = net2dev_map[addr.net];
@@ -351,7 +342,6 @@ static int econet_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 
                eb = (struct ec_cb *)&skb->cb;
 
-               /* BUG: saddr may be NULL */
                eb->cookie = saddr->cookie;
                eb->sec = *saddr;
                eb->sent = ec_tx_done;