netlink: Use copy_to_user() for optval in netlink_getsockopt().
Brad Spencer provided a detailed report [0] that when calling getsockopt() for AF_NETLINK, some SOL_NETLINK options set only 1 byte even though such options require at least sizeof(int) as length. The options return a flag value that fits into 1 byte, but such behaviour confuses users who do not initialise the variable before calling getsockopt() and do not strictly check the returned value as char. Currently, netlink_getsockopt() uses put_user() to copy data to optlen and optval, but put_user() casts the data based on the pointer, char *optval. As a result, only 1 byte is set to optval. To avoid this behaviour, we need to use copy_to_user() or cast optval for put_user(). Note that this changes the behaviour on big-endian systems, but we document that the size of optval is int in the man page. $ man 7 netlink ... Socket options To set or get a netlink socket option, call getsockopt(2) to read or setsockopt(2) to write the option with the option level argument set to SOL_NETLINK. Unless otherwise noted, optval is a pointer to an int. Fixes: 9a4595bc ("[NETLINK]: Add set/getsockopt options to support more than 32 groups") Fixes: be0c22a4 ("netlink: add NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option") Fixes: 38938bfe ("netlink: add NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag") Fixes: 0a6a3a23 ("netlink: add NETLINK_CAP_ACK socket option") Fixes: 2d4bc933 ("netlink: extended ACK reporting") Fixes: 89d35528 ("netlink: Add new socket option to enable strict checking on dumps") Reported-by: Brad Spencer <bspencer@blackberry.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZD7VkNWFfp22kTDt@datsun.rim.net/Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230421185255.94606-1-kuniyu@amazon.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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