5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" matttbe@kernel.org
commit 15649fd5415eda664ef35780c2013adeb5d9c695 upstream.
As mentioned in a previous commit of this series, using the 'net' structure via 'current' is not recommended for different reasons:
- Inconsistency: getting info from the reader's/writer's netns vs only from the opener's netns.
- current->nsproxy can be NULL in some cases, resulting in an 'Oops' (null-ptr-deref), e.g. when the current task is exiting, as spotted by syzbot [1] using acct(2).
The 'net' structure can be obtained from the table->data using container_of().
Note that table->data could also be used directly, but that would increase the size of this fix, while 'sctp.ctl_sock' still needs to be retrieved from 'net' structure.
Fixes: b14878ccb7fa ("net: sctp: cache auth_enable per endpoint") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/67769ecb.050a0220.3a8527.003f.GAE@google.com [1] Suggested-by: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250108-net-sysctl-current-nsproxy-v1-6-5df34b2083... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Magali Lemes magali.lemes@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/sctp/sysctl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/sctp/sysctl.c +++ b/net/sctp/sysctl.c @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ static int proc_sctp_do_auth(struct ctl_ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { - struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns; + struct net *net = container_of(ctl->data, struct net, sctp.auth_enable); struct ctl_table tbl; int new_value, ret;