[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "fix breakage in o2net_send_tcp_msg()" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 17 11:15:25 UTC 2014


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

    fix breakage in o2net_send_tcp_msg()

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From a98c60f6d9933f91749cdee0ceb73ab65df9f0ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 15:18:29 -0500
Subject: fix breakage in o2net_send_tcp_msg()

commit 7e8631e8b9d4e9f698c09c7e7309c96249180ff9 upstream.

uninitialized msghdr.  Broken in "ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()"
by me ;-/

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c
index 681691bc233a..f39a0e9dacf0 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ static int o2net_send_tcp_msg(struct socket *sock, struct kvec *vec,
 			      size_t veclen, size_t total)
 {
 	int ret;
-	struct msghdr msg;
+	struct msghdr msg = {.msg_flags = 0,};

 	if (sock == NULL) {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
--
2.1.0





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