Potential issues for linux socket syscall

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 25 18:45:05 UTC 2019


On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 02:57:23AM +0000, Weike.Chen at Dell.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Linux emulation experts,
> 
> I find a potential issue on FreeBSD 12 official release for Linux emulation syscall.
> 
> The function 'linux_getsockname' in 'linux_socket.c' calls 'bsd_to_linux_sockaddr', and it calls 'bsd_to_linux_domain' to convert 'sa_family' from BSD domain to Linux domain.
> 
> But after calling  'bsd_to_linux_sockaddr', 'linux_sa_put' is called, and it calls 'bsd_to_linux_domain' to convert 'sa_family' from BSD domain to Linux domain again.
> But the 'sa_family' has already been converted.
> Since the value of AF_INTE6 and LINUX_AF_INET6 is different, and converting twice will cause issue. 

This code is definitely unsafe.  I'd opened a bug to track some of this
issues at little while ago at:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232920.

Would you mind pasting your analysis into that report?

Do you have a simple test case?  I only hit the issue while auditing
some general code and so was leary about trying to fix unfamiliar code
without one.

Thanks,
Brooks
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