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 5.15-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-5.15 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
@@ -196,8 +196,8 @@ 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-5.15/cifs-don-t-send-down-the-destination-address-to-sendmsg-for-a-sock_stream.patch
queue-5.15/cifs-always-initialize-struct-msghdr-smb_msg-completely.patch
