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Use aligned control buffers and CMSG macros for ancillary data - #9818
pack_ancillary_messages built the sendmsg control buffer in a Vec<u8> and wrote cmsghdr fields through CMSG_FIRSTHDR/CMSG_NXTHDR pointers into it. A Vec<u8> has byte alignment, so those writes were misaligned. The recvmsg control storage was aligned only to cmsghdr, which is less than the CMSG alignment on some targets (e.g. FreeBSD/OpenBSD _ALIGNBYTES, musl CMSG_ALIGN). To work around unaligned buffers, the receive side used a hand-written parser that emulated per-platform CMSG_NXTHDR behavior. AF_ALG computed header offsets by hand.
This PR gives all three paths aligned storage and uses the libc CMSG_* macros on it, following sock_sendmsg, sock_recvmsg_guts and sock_sendmsg_afalg in Modules/socketmodule.c.
Control buffer
ControlBuffer: owned, zero-initialized msg_control storage aligned to 16 bytes, the alignment PyMem_Malloc provides. sendmsg, recvmsg/recvmsg_into and sendmsg_afalg all use it.
sendmsg
The total control length is limited to SOCKLEN_T_LIMIT ("too much ancillary data").
Each header comes from CMSG_FIRSTHDR/CMSG_NXTHDR, is checked with cmsg_min_space and get_cmsg_data_space, and the payload is written to CMSG_DATA.
RuntimeErrors match: unexpected NULL result from CMSG_FIRSTHDR() / CMSG_NXTHDR(), item size out of range, ancillary data does not fit in calculated space.
Errors in the argument iterables and in ancillary data items have the same types and messages as sock_sendmsg/sock_sendmsg_iovec.
recvmsg / recvmsg_into
Received control messages are walked with CMSG_FIRSTHDR/CMSG_NXTHDR on the msghdr returned by recvmsg, using get_cmsg_data_len. This replaces the emulating parser and its platform-specific branches.
A truncated or malformed control message emits RuntimeWarning("received malformed or improperly-truncated ancillary data"). If that warning or any later step raises, received SCM_RIGHTS descriptors are closed.
ancbufsize outside 0..=SOCKLEN_T_LIMIT raises ValueError("invalid ancillary data buffer length"). A negative bufsize raises ValueError("negative buffer size in recvmsg()").
sendmsg_afalg (Linux)
The control buffer is built with CMSG_FIRSTHDR/CMSG_NXTHDR, with the same cmsg_len values and NULL-header RuntimeErrors as sock_sendmsg_afalg.
Arguments are validated the same way: algset is only supported for AF_ALG, Invalid or missing argument 'op', assoclen must be positive.
Tests
Host unit tests:
alignment and empty input
packing and parsing round trip
truncated and malformed headers
a socketpairSCM_RIGHTS round trip through recvmsg
(Linux) the AF_ALG header layout
test_socket passes on macOS (run=751, skipped=264). It emits the same 12 truncation RuntimeWarnings as CPython on the same machine.
AF_ALG code was type-checked with cargo check --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, but not run.
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The change adds aligned ancillary control buffers and CMSG-based parsing with explicit status. Python socket send and receive paths use the updated APIs. AF_ALG control construction now returns a buffer, and VM exception mappings cover the new packing errors.
Changes: Unix socket ancillary data
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Summary
Ancillary buffer and parsing contracts crates/host_env/src/socket.rs
Ancillary parsing reports complete, truncated, or malformed status. Packing uses aligned ControlBuffer storage and reports distinct header and size errors. Tests cover parsing, truncation, malformed input, packing, and AF_ALG header layout.
Receive results and AF_ALG control packing crates/host_env/src/socket.rs
Receive results expose ancillary status, and recvmsg_into uses aligned control storage. AF_ALG control construction returns a buffer and no longer sends the message itself.
sendmsg uses shared iterable and ancillary-item conversion. sendmsg_afalg validates arguments, builds control data, and sends through MsgHdr. Packing errors map to Python exceptions.
recvmsg and recvmsg_into validate ancillary buffer sizes and share ancillary and address conversion. Conversion failures close received file descriptors; ancillary status triggers warnings or errors during parsing.
sequenceDiagram
participant PythonSocket as Python socket methods
participant HostSocket as host_socket receive methods
participant ReceiveConversion as recvmsg_ancillary_and_address
participant AncillaryConversion as parse_ancillary_data
PythonSocket->>HostSocket: Request receive with ancillary buffer size
HostSocket-->>PythonSocket: Return messages, address, and ancillary status
PythonSocket->>ReceiveConversion: Convert messages and address
ReceiveConversion->>AncillaryConversion: Parse messages with ancillary status
AncillaryConversion-->>ReceiveConversion: Return ancillary tuples or conversion error
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RustPython/RustPython#9268: Adds the recvmsg_into host API and ancillary storage that this change updates.
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The new AF_ALG control-message packing does not limit the IV size, so an IV of 4 GiB or more can corrupt heap memory. This needs an extremely large input on a Linux AF_ALG socket, so it is a narrow trigger. It should be fixed before merge by bounding the IV through the checked control-space helper.
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- Around line 1550-1554: Reject IV payloads that cannot be represented safely
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around CMSG_SPACE, compute the optional IV payload once, pass it through the
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Reject an oversized IV before it reaches CMSG_SPACE, because truncation causes a heap overflow.
On Linux, libc::CMSG_SPACE takes a c_uint, so iv_payload as _ keeps only the low 32 bits.
Example on a 64-bit target with iv.len() == 1 << 32:
iv_payload becomes 4 after the cast.
iv_space becomes CMSG_SPACE(4).
controllen is therefore 48 bytes.
CMSG_NXTHDR still returns a valid IV header, because the zeroed next header fits. copy_nonoverlapping then writes iv.len() bytes after CMSG_DATA(header). That is an out-of-bounds heap write.
Python code can trigger this. It only needs to call sendmsg_afalg(iv=...) with an IV of 4 GiB or more on an AF_ALG socket. The iv.len() as u32 write at Line 1601 truncates for the same reason.
Bound the payload with checked_cmsg_space. That bound also makes the later as _ and as u32 casts lossless. Compute iv_payload once instead of twice.
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let mut controllen = word_space;
- if let Some(iv) = iv {- let iv_payload = mem::size_of::<u32>()- .checked_add(iv.len())- .ok_or(AfAlgControlError::NoMemory)?;- // SAFETY: `CMSG_SPACE` is a length macro over integer fields.- let iv_space = unsafe { libc::CMSG_SPACE(iv_payload as _) } as usize;+ let iv_payload = match iv {+ Some(iv) => Some(+ mem::size_of::<u32>()+ .checked_add(iv.len())+ .ok_or(AfAlgControlError::NoMemory)?,+ ),+ None => None,+ };+ if let Some(iv_payload) = iv_payload {+ // `checked_cmsg_space` bounds the payload by SOCKLEN_T_LIMIT, so the+ // `c_uint` argument of CMSG_SPACE/CMSG_LEN and the u32 ivlen do not truncate.+ let iv_space = checked_cmsg_space(iv_payload).ok_or(AfAlgControlError::NoMemory)?;
controllen = controllen
.checked_add(iv_space)
.ok_or(AfAlgControlError::NoMemory)?;
}
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- if let Some(iv) = iv {+ if let (Some(iv), Some(iv_payload)) = (iv, iv_payload) {
// SAFETY: `header` is a previous CMSG_* result in the zeroed buffer.
header = unsafe { libc::CMSG_NXTHDR(&msg, header) };
if header.is_null() {
return Err(AfAlgControlError::UnexpectedNullNextHeaderIv);
}
- let iv_payload = mem::size_of::<u32>()- .checked_add(iv.len())- .ok_or(AfAlgControlError::NoMemory)?;
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Reject IV payloads that cannot be represented safely before sizing the control buffer. In the AF_ALG control-message construction around CMSG_SPACE, compute the optional IV payload once, pass it through the existing checked_cmsg_space bound, and reuse that validated value when building the IV header and writing its length; ensure oversized IVs return NoMemory before any narrowing cast or copy.
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pack_ancillary_messages wrote cmsghdr fields through CMSG_FIRSTHDR and
CMSG_NXTHDR pointers into a Vec<u8>, which has byte alignment. Receive
storage was aligned only to cmsghdr and parsed by a hand-written walker
emulating per-platform CMSG_NXTHDR behavior; AF_ALG computed header
offsets by hand.
- Add ControlBuffer, zero-initialized msg_control storage aligned to 16
bytes, used by sendmsg, recvmsg/recvmsg_into and sendmsg_afalg.
- sendmsg: limit the control length to SOCKLEN_T_LIMIT, walk headers
with CMSG_FIRSTHDR/CMSG_NXTHDR, check them with cmsg_min_space and
get_cmsg_data_space, and raise the matching RuntimeErrors. Align the
argument and ancillary item error messages with sock_sendmsg.
- recvmsg/recvmsg_into: walk the received msghdr with the CMSG macros
and get_cmsg_data_len, report truncated or malformed control data as
AncillaryDataStatus, emit the RuntimeWarning for it, and close received
SCM_RIGHTS descriptors when building the result fails. Validate
ancbufsize against SOCKLEN_T_LIMIT.
- sendmsg_afalg: build the control buffer with the CMSG macros and
validate family, op and assoclen with the same errors as
sock_sendmsg_afalg; remove the unused host sendmsg_afalg.
- Replace the old parser tests with tests for packing, parsing,
truncation, malformed headers, an SCM_RIGHTS round trip and the
AF_ALG header layout.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Grok:grok-4.7
The PyByteArray/PyBytes/PyStr/PyTuple imports are only used by the Unix
sendmsg ancillary item parser and were unused on Windows.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
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Summary
pack_ancillary_messagesbuilt thesendmsgcontrol buffer in aVec<u8>and wrotecmsghdrfields throughCMSG_FIRSTHDR/CMSG_NXTHDRpointers into it. AVec<u8>has byte alignment, so those writes were misaligned. Therecvmsgcontrol storage was aligned only tocmsghdr, which is less than the CMSG alignment on some targets (e.g. FreeBSD/OpenBSD_ALIGNBYTES, muslCMSG_ALIGN). To work around unaligned buffers, the receive side used a hand-written parser that emulated per-platformCMSG_NXTHDRbehavior. AF_ALG computed header offsets by hand.This PR gives all three paths aligned storage and uses the libc
CMSG_*macros on it, followingsock_sendmsg,sock_recvmsg_gutsandsock_sendmsg_afalginModules/socketmodule.c.Control buffer
ControlBuffer: owned, zero-initializedmsg_controlstorage aligned to 16 bytes, the alignmentPyMem_Mallocprovides.sendmsg,recvmsg/recvmsg_intoandsendmsg_afalgall use it.sendmsg
SOCKLEN_T_LIMIT("too much ancillary data").CMSG_FIRSTHDR/CMSG_NXTHDR, is checked withcmsg_min_spaceandget_cmsg_data_space, and the payload is written toCMSG_DATA.unexpected NULL result from CMSG_FIRSTHDR()/CMSG_NXTHDR(),item size out of range,ancillary data does not fit in calculated space.sock_sendmsg/sock_sendmsg_iovec.recvmsg / recvmsg_into
CMSG_FIRSTHDR/CMSG_NXTHDRon themsghdrreturned byrecvmsg, usingget_cmsg_data_len. This replaces the emulating parser and its platform-specific branches.RuntimeWarning("received malformed or improperly-truncated ancillary data"). If that warning or any later step raises, receivedSCM_RIGHTSdescriptors are closed.ancbufsizeoutside0..=SOCKLEN_T_LIMITraisesValueError("invalid ancillary data buffer length"). A negativebufsizeraisesValueError("negative buffer size in recvmsg()").sendmsg_afalg (Linux)
CMSG_FIRSTHDR/CMSG_NXTHDR, with the samecmsg_lenvalues and NULL-header RuntimeErrors assock_sendmsg_afalg.algset is only supported for AF_ALG,Invalid or missing argument 'op',assoclen must be positive.Tests
socketpairSCM_RIGHTSround trip throughrecvmsgtest_socketpasses on macOS (run=751, skipped=264). It emits the same 12 truncation RuntimeWarnings as CPython on the same machine.cargo check --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, but not run.Supersedes #9642.
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