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From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, davem@davemloft.net
Cc: tadeusz.struk@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	freude@linux.vnet.ibm.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: fix uninitialized variable issue
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:46:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151215184617.11620.23369.stgit@tstruk-mobl1> (raw)

msg_iocb needs to be initialized on the recv/recvfrom path.
Otherwise afalg will wrongly interpret it as an async call.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
---
 net/socket.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index dd2c247..80ca820 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);

             reply	other threads:[~2015-12-15 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-15 18:46 Tadeusz Struk [this message]
2015-12-15 19:02 ` [PATCH] net: fix uninitialized variable issue Eric Dumazet
2015-12-15 22:42   ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-12-15 23:15     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-12-15 20:47 ` David Miller

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