The patch titled
RxRPC: fix rxrpc_recvmsg()'s returning of msg_name
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
rxrpc-fix-rxrpc_recvmsgs-returning-of-msg_name.patch
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Subject: RxRPC: fix rxrpc_recvmsg()'s returning of msg_name
From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fix rxrpc_recvmsg() to return msg_name correctly. We shouldn't overwrite the
*msg struct, but should rather write into msg->msg_name (there's a '&' unary
operator that shouldn't be there).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/rxrpc/ar-recvmsg.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN net/rxrpc/ar-recvmsg.c~rxrpc-fix-rxrpc_recvmsgs-returning-of-msg_name net/rxrpc/ar-recvmsg.c
--- a/net/rxrpc/ar-recvmsg.c~rxrpc-fix-rxrpc_recvmsgs-returning-of-msg_name
+++ a/net/rxrpc/ar-recvmsg.c
@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ int rxrpc_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, st
/* copy the peer address and timestamp */
if (!continue_call) {
if (msg->msg_name && msg->msg_namelen > 0)
- memcpy(&msg->msg_name, &call->conn->trans->peer->srx,
+ memcpy(msg->msg_name,
+ &call->conn->trans->peer->srx,
sizeof(call->conn->trans->peer->srx));
sock_recv_timestamp(msg, &rx->sk, skb);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-hrt.patch
git-unionfs.patch
rxrpc-fix-rxrpc_recvmsgs-returning-of-msg_name.patch
remove-the-macro-get_personality.patch
keys-increase-the-payload-size-when-instantiating-a-key.patch
keys-check-starting-keyring-as-part-of-search.patch
keys-allow-the-callout-data-to-be-passed-as-a-blob-rather-than-a-string.patch
keys-add-keyctl-function-to-get-a-security-label.patch
keys-switch-to-proc_create.patch
procfs-task-exe-symlink.patch
procfs-task-exe-symlink-fix.patch
procfs-task-exe-symlink-fix-2.patch
mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch
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