[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "ipv6: fix leaking uninitialized port number of offender sockaddr" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ipv6: fix leaking uninitialized port number of offender sockaddr

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.15.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From b040995d5dc8951c4cc16546220988f2d5698071 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:22:33 +0100
Subject: ipv6: fix leaking uninitialized port number of offender sockaddr

[ Upstream commit 1fa4c710b6fe7b0aac9907240291b6fe6aafc3b8 ]

Offenders don't have port numbers, so set it to 0.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/datagram.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/datagram.c b/net/ipv6/datagram.c
index 6aaf0b9..2877b16 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/datagram.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/datagram.c
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@ int ipv6_recv_error(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int len, int *addr_len)
 	if (serr->ee.ee_origin != SO_EE_ORIGIN_LOCAL) {
 		sin->sin6_family = AF_INET6;
 		sin->sin6_flowinfo = 0;
+		sin->sin6_port = 0;
 		sin->sin6_scope_id = 0;
 		if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IPV6)) {
 			sin->sin6_addr = ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr;
--
1.8.3.2