From patchwork Tue Jan 5 19:01:25 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 563257 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E78140311; Wed, 6 Jan 2016 06:02:40 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1aGWsN-0002TO-QW; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:02:35 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1aGWrL-0001vp-2M for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:01:31 +0000 Received: from 1.general.kamal.us.vpn ([10.172.68.52] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1aGWrJ-0003yl-E7; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:01:29 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aGWrG-0005E6-Mq; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:01:26 -0800 From: Kamal Mostafa To: "tadeusz.struk@intel.com" Subject: [4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: fix uninitialized variable issue" has been added to staging queue Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:01:25 -0800 Message-Id: <1452020485-20060-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , Harald Freudenberger , "David S. Miller" , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled net: fix uninitialized variable issue to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt1. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From 4c5440642275531fcc4edc3d5dc654aece49606b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "tadeusz.struk@intel.com" Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:46:17 -0800 Subject: net: fix uninitialized variable issue [ 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 Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- net/socket.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) -- 1.9.1 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);