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truss: Make control message header parsing more robust
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Authored by markj on Jun 13 2022, 9:07 PM.
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Summary

print_cmsg() was assuming that the control message chain is well-formed,
but that isn't necessarily the case for sendmsg(2). In particular, if
cmsg_len is zero, print_cmsg() will loop forever. Check for truncated
headers and try to recover if possible.

Test Plan

This was found by running a syzkaller reproducer under truss. Now it prints:

94908: sendmsg(3,{NULL,0,0x0,0,{{level=SOL_SOCKET,type=SCM_RIGHTS,data={}}{<invalid cmsg len=0>}},108,0},0) ERR#22 'Invalid argument'

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