Fix sctp privilege elevation (CVE-2006-3745)
sctp_make_abort_user() now takes the msg_len along with the msg so that we don't have to recalculate the bytes in iovec. It also uses memcpy_fromiovec() so that we don't go beyond the length allocated. It is good to have this fix even if verify_iovec() is fixed to return error on overflow. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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