Patch "net: fix uninitialized variable issue" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: fix uninitialized variable issue

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-fix-uninitialized-variable-issue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Dec 30 19:52:45 PST 2015
From: "tadeusz.struk@intel.com" <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:46:17 -0800
Subject: net: fix uninitialized variable issue

From: "tadeusz.struk@intel.com" <tadeusz.struk@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.

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

--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1705,6 +1705,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(recvfrom, int, fd, void
 	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);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tadeusz.struk@intel.com are

queue-4.1/net-fix-uninitialized-variable-issue.patch