[PATCH 3.11 124/138] ipv4: initialise the itag variable in __mkroute_input
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Jun 3 11:39:30 UTC 2014
3.11.10.11 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li at gmail.com>
commit fbdc0ad095c0a299e9abf5d8ac8f58374951149a upstream.
the value of itag is a random value from stack, and may not be initiated by
fib_validate_source, which called fib_combine_itag if CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_CLASSID
is not set
This will make the cached dst uncertainty
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast at plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
net/ipv4/route.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 06329ca4787d..68091be23be2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -1527,7 +1527,7 @@ static int __mkroute_input(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct in_device *out_dev;
unsigned int flags = 0;
bool do_cache;
- u32 itag;
+ u32 itag = 0;
/* get a working reference to the output device */
out_dev = __in_dev_get_rcu(FIB_RES_DEV(*res));
--
1.9.1
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