[PATCH 3.8 075/121] ipv4: initialise the itag variable in __mkroute_input

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jun 17 16:17:33 UTC 2014


3.8.13.24 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li at gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit fbdc0ad095c0a299e9abf5d8ac8f58374951149a ]

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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 12ab6de..24ba6e1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@ 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





More information about the kernel-team mailing list