Re: [PATCH 1/2] netlink: Bounds-check nlmsg_len()

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 20:06:09 -0700 Kees Cook wrote:
>  static inline int nlmsg_len(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
>  {
> -	return nlh->nlmsg_len - NLMSG_HDRLEN;
> +	u32 nlmsg_contents_len;
> +
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(check_sub_overflow(nlh->nlmsg_len,
> +					    (u32)NLMSG_HDRLEN,
> +					    &nlmsg_contents_len)))
> +		return 0;
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(nlmsg_contents_len > INT_MAX))
> +		return INT_MAX;
> +	return nlmsg_contents_len;

We check the messages on input, making sure the length is valid wrt
skb->len, and sane, ie > NLMSG_HDRLEN. See netlink_rcv_skb().

Can we not, pretty please? :(