__bpfilter_process_sockopt never initialized the pos variable passed to the pipe write. This has been mostly harmless in the past as pipes ignore the offset, but the switch to kernel_write no verified the position, which can lead to a failure depending on the exact stack initialization patter. Initialize the variable to zero to make rw_verify_area happy. Fixes: 6955a76fbcd5 ("bpfilter: switch to kernel_write") Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Rodrigo Madera <rodrigo.madera@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Tested-by: Rodrigo Madera <rodrigo.madera@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c b/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c index 1905e01c3aa9a7..4494ea6056cdb8 100644 --- a/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c +++ b/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int __bpfilter_process_sockopt(struct sock *sk, int optname, { struct mbox_request req; struct mbox_reply reply; - loff_t pos; + loff_t pos = 0; ssize_t n; int ret = -EFAULT; -- 2.27.0