This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: fix leaking uninitialized port number of offender sockaddr
to the 3.4-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:
ipv6-fix-leaking-uninitialized-port-number-of-offender-sockaddr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 49376c90b2f7fe89a0b07b029c397c958bd1c8dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:22:33 +0100
Subject: ipv6: fix leaking uninitialized port number of offender sockaddr
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 1fa4c710b6fe7b0aac9907240291b6fe6aafc3b8 ]
Offenders don't have port numbers, so set it to 0.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/datagram.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/ipv6/datagram.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/datagram.c
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ int ipv6_recv_error(struct sock *sk, str
if (serr->ee.ee_origin != SO_EE_ORIGIN_LOCAL) {
sin->sin6_family = AF_INET6;
sin->sin6_flowinfo = 0;
+ sin->sin6_port = 0;
sin->sin6_scope_id = 0;
if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IPV6)) {
sin->sin6_addr = ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/inet-prevent-leakage-of-uninitialized-memory-to-user-in-recv-syscalls.patch
queue-3.4/net-rework-recvmsg-handler-msg_name-and-msg_namelen-logic.patch
queue-3.4/ipv6-use-rt6_get_dflt_router-to-get-default-router-in-rt6_route_rcv.patch
queue-3.4/ipv6-fix-possible-seqlock-deadlock-in-ip6_finish_output2.patch
queue-3.4/net-add-bug_on-if-kernel-advertises-msg_namelen-sizeof-struct-sockaddr_storage.patch
queue-3.4/random32-fix-off-by-one-in-seeding-requirement.patch
queue-3.4/inet-fix-possible-seqlock-deadlocks.patch
queue-3.4/inet-fix-addr_len-msg-msg_namelen-assignment-in-recv_error-and-rxpmtu-functions.patch
queue-3.4/ipv6-fix-leaking-uninitialized-port-number-of-offender-sockaddr.patch
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