[PATCH v3 2/2] vhost: fix possible FD leaks on truncation

Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Tue Feb 7 17:22:40 CET 2023


This patch fixes possible FDs leaks when truncation happens
on either the message buffer or its control data. Indeed,
by returning early, it did not let a chance to retrieve the
FDs passed as ancillary data, and so caused a potential FDs
leak.

This patch fixes this by extracting the FDs from the
ancillary data as long as recvmsg() call succeeded. It also
improves the logs to differentiate between MSG_TRUNC and
MSG_CTRUNC.

Fixes: bf472259dde6 ("vhost: fix possible denial of service by leaking FDs")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia at intel.com>
---
 lib/vhost/socket.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/vhost/socket.c b/lib/vhost/socket.c
index 863a6f6d52..669c322e12 100644
--- a/lib/vhost/socket.c
+++ b/lib/vhost/socket.c
@@ -129,10 +129,12 @@ read_fd_message(char *ifname, int sockfd, char *buf, int buflen, int *fds, int m
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	if (msgh.msg_flags & (MSG_TRUNC | MSG_CTRUNC)) {
+	if (msgh.msg_flags & MSG_TRUNC)
 		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ifname, ERR, "truncated msg (fd %d)\n", sockfd);
-		return -1;
-	}
+
+	/* MSG_CTRUNC may be caused by LSM misconfiguration */
+	if (msgh.msg_flags & MSG_CTRUNC)
+		VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ifname, ERR, "truncated control data (fd %d)\n", sockfd);
 
 	for (cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msgh); cmsg != NULL;
 		cmsg = CMSG_NXTHDR(&msgh, cmsg)) {
-- 
2.39.1



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