This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: fix uninitialized variable issue
to the 4.3-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:
net-fix-uninitialized-variable-issue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Dec 30 19:48:47 PST 2015
From: "tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx" <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:46:17 -0800
Subject: net: fix uninitialized variable issue
From: "tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx" <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 130ed5d105dde141e7fe60d5440aa53e0a84f13b ]
msg_iocb needs to be initialized on the recv/recvfrom path.
Otherwise afalg will wrongly interpret it as an async call.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/socket.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1702,6 +1702,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(recvfrom, int, fd, void
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);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.3/net-fix-uninitialized-variable-issue.patch
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