Commit a4322266 authored Oct 23, 2008 by fernando@oss.ntt.co Committed by David S. Miller Oct 31, 2008

xfrm: do not leak ESRCH to user space



I noticed that, under certain conditions, ESRCH can be leaked from the
xfrm layer to user space through sys_connect. In particular, this seems
to happen reliably when the kernel fails to resolve a template either
because the AF_KEY receive buffer being used by racoon is full or
because the SA entry we are trying to use is in XFRM_STATE_EXPIRED
state.

However, since this could be a transient issue it could be argued that
EAGAIN would be more appropriate. Besides this error code is not even
documented in the man page for sys_connect (as of man-pages 3.07).

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 3a8af722

net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1251,6 +1251,8 @@ xfrm_tmpl_resolve_one(struct xfrm_policy policy, struct flowi fl,
		-EINVAL : -EAGAIN);
		xfrm_state_put(x);
		}
		else if (error == -ESRCH)
		error = -EAGAIN;

		if (!tmpl->optional)
		goto fail;

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