[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "rxrpc: bogus MSG_PEEK test in rxrpc_recvmsg()" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Apr 7 22:49:29 UTC 2015


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

    rxrpc: bogus MSG_PEEK test in rxrpc_recvmsg()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt19.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From b7cd1f4ad54a29ba7eeff08bcd5c503f29727ed0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro at ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 05:34:56 +0000
Subject: rxrpc: bogus MSG_PEEK test in rxrpc_recvmsg()

[ Upstream commit 7d985ed1dca5c90535d67ce92ef6ca520302340a ]

[I would really like an ACK on that one from dhowells; it appears to be
quite straightforward, but...]

MSG_PEEK isn't passed to ->recvmsg() via msg->msg_flags; as the matter of
fact, neither the kernel users of rxrpc, nor the syscalls ever set that bit
in there.  It gets passed via flags; in fact, another such check in the same
function is done correctly - as flags & MSG_PEEK.

It had been that way (effectively disabled) for 8 years, though, so the patch
needs beating up - that case had never been tested.  If it is correct, it's
-stable fodder.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/rxrpc/ar-recvmsg.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/ar-recvmsg.c b/net/rxrpc/ar-recvmsg.c
index 898492a..5cc2da5 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/ar-recvmsg.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/ar-recvmsg.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ int rxrpc_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 		if (!skb) {
 			/* nothing remains on the queue */
 			if (copied &&
-			    (msg->msg_flags & MSG_PEEK || timeo == 0))
+			    (flags & MSG_PEEK || timeo == 0))
 				goto out;

 			/* wait for a message to turn up */
--
1.9.1





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