This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: don't send down the destination address to sendmsg for a SOCK_STREAM to the 4.9-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: cifs-don-t-send-down-the-destination-address-to-sendmsg-for-a-sock_stream.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 17d3df38dc5f4cec9b0ac6eb79c1859b6e2693a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 05:25:46 +0200 Subject: cifs: don't send down the destination address to sendmsg for a SOCK_STREAM From: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx> commit 17d3df38dc5f4cec9b0ac6eb79c1859b6e2693a4 upstream. This is ignored anyway by the tcp layer. Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/transport.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/cifs/transport.c +++ b/fs/cifs/transport.c @@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ smb_send_kvec(struct TCP_Server_Info *se *sent = 0; - smb_msg->msg_name = (struct sockaddr *) &server->dstaddr; - smb_msg->msg_namelen = sizeof(struct sockaddr); + smb_msg->msg_name = NULL; + smb_msg->msg_namelen = 0; smb_msg->msg_control = NULL; smb_msg->msg_controllen = 0; if (server->noblocksnd) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from metze@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/cifs-don-t-send-down-the-destination-address-to-sendmsg-for-a-sock_stream.patch