From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 5a81e6a171cdbd1fa8bc1fdd80c23d3d71816fac upstream. Flags (PIPE_BUF_FLAG_PACKET, PIPE_BUF_FLAG_GIFT) could remain on the unused part of the pipe ring buffer. Previously splice_to_pipe() left the flags value alone, which could result in incorrect behavior. Uninitialized flags appears to have been there from the introduction of the splice syscall. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/splice.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c index 51ce51b9af6a..2e012472f97b 100644 --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ ssize_t splice_to_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, buf->len = spd->partial[page_nr].len; buf->private = spd->partial[page_nr].private; buf->ops = spd->ops; + buf->flags = 0; if (spd->flags & SPLICE_F_GIFT) buf->flags |= PIPE_BUF_FLAG_GIFT; -- 2.12.0