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From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH linux-next] ipc: fix local variable initialization in compat_do_msg_fill()
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:21:24 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120419122124.15573.24504.stgit@zurg> (raw)

The "msgp" must points to the userspace buffer.

fix for linux-next commit 774d0252d303969a7281eefd6eaccde50bb6eb6e
("c/r: ipc: message queue receive cleanup")

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 ipc/compat.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ipc/compat.c b/ipc/compat.c
index 6da376b..0c2ebd0 100644
--- a/ipc/compat.c
+++ b/ipc/compat.c
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static long compat_do_msg_steal(void __user *dest, struct msg_msg *msg, size_t b
 
 long compat_do_msg_fill(void __user *dest, struct msg_msg *msg, size_t bufsz)
 {
-	struct compat_msgbuf __user *msgp;
+	struct compat_msgbuf __user *msgp = dest;
 	size_t msgsz;
 
 	if (put_user(msg->m_type, &msgp->mtype))


             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-19 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-19 12:21 Konstantin Khlebnikov [this message]
2012-04-19 13:00 ` [PATCH linux-next] ipc: fix local variable initialization in compat_do_msg_fill() Konstantin Khlebnikov

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