[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 202/211] net: fix uninitialized variable issue
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jan 5 19:45:10 UTC 2016
4.2.8-ckt1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "tadeusz.struk at intel.com" <tadeusz.struk at intel.com>
[ Upstream commit 130ed5d105dde141e7fe60d5440aa53e0a84f13b ]
msg_iocb needs to be initialized on the recv/recvfrom path.
Otherwise afalg will wrongly interpret it as an async call.
Reported-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
net/socket.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 9963a0b..f3fbe17 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1702,6 +1702,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(recvfrom, int, fd, void __user *, ubuf, size_t, size,
msg.msg_name = addr ? (struct sockaddr *)&address : NULL;
/* We assume all kernel code knows the size of sockaddr_storage */
msg.msg_namelen = 0;
+ msg.msg_iocb = NULL;
if (sock->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT;
err = sock_recvmsg(sock, &msg, iov_iter_count(&msg.msg_iter), flags);
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1.9.1
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