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can-bcm: Use inode instead of kernel address for /proc file
authorhartkopp <hartkopp@030b6a49-0b11-0410-94ab-b0dab22257f2>
Sat, 1 Jan 2011 17:14:20 +0000 (17:14 +0000)
committerhartkopp <hartkopp@030b6a49-0b11-0410-94ab-b0dab22257f2>
Sat, 1 Jan 2011 17:14:20 +0000 (17:14 +0000)
Since the socket address is just being used as a unique identifier, its
inode number is an alternative that does not leak potentially sensitive
information.

CC-ing stable because MITRE has assigned CVE-2010-4565 to the issue.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9f260e0efa4766e56d0ac14f1aeea6ee5eb8fe83

git-svn-id: svn://svn.berlios.de//socketcan/trunk@1227 030b6a49-0b11-0410-94ab-b0dab22257f2

kernel/2.6/net/can/bcm.c

index 0764968b28b814eb4ec151b22b603325c5d62ecd..d12a8e55ee816be644edebeddd67a96d1bb235db 100644 (file)
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ struct bcm_sock {
        struct list_head tx_ops;
        unsigned long dropped_usr_msgs;
        struct proc_dir_entry *bcm_proc_read;
-       char procname [20]; /* pointer printed in ASCII with \0 */
+       char procname [32]; /* inode number in decimal with \0 */
 };
 
 static inline struct bcm_sock *bcm_sk(const struct sock *sk)
@@ -1648,7 +1648,7 @@ static int bcm_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int len,
 
        if (proc_dir) {
                /* unique socket address as filename */
-               sprintf(bo->procname, "%p", sock);
+               sprintf(bo->procname, "%lu", sock_i_ino(sk));
 #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,26)
                bo->bcm_proc_read = proc_create_data(bo->procname, 0644,
                                                     proc_dir,