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* [PATCH] Fix uninitialized struct sockaddr_hci memory passed to bind()
@ 2011-01-20 21:02 Anderson Lizardo
  2011-01-21  6:56 ` Johan Hedberg
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Anderson Lizardo @ 2011-01-20 21:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-bluetooth; +Cc: Anderson Lizardo

The bind() call in open_socket() was passing a struct sockaddr_hci to
bind() with two uninitialized bytes. This caused "Invalid argument" errors
on kernels which do strict checks of struct sockaddr_hci fields.
---
 src/hcidump.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/hcidump.c b/src/hcidump.c
index b8eb1e4..97aae5d 100644
--- a/src/hcidump.c
+++ b/src/hcidump.c
@@ -603,6 +603,7 @@ static int open_socket(int dev, unsigned long flags)
 	}
 
 	/* Bind socket to the HCI device */
+	memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
 	addr.hci_family = AF_BLUETOOTH;
 	addr.hci_dev = dev;
 	if (bind(sk, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof(addr)) < 0) {
-- 
1.7.0.4


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