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authortadeusz.struk@intel.com <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>2015-12-15 21:46:17 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-01-23 07:55:49 +0300
commit2eccd92cea9b6f4deaad7ed7b36178628ed8c0c3 (patch)
tree665c67f5f3d24d8da5c9cfe77df5d3da98cb61ce /net
parent9b11c6bd46ec36ddee89e29702584d0eaca2e4f7 (diff)
downloadlinux-2eccd92cea9b6f4deaad7ed7b36178628ed8c0c3.tar.xz
net: fix uninitialized variable issue
[ 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@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/socket.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 9963a0b53a64..f3fbe17b5765 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1702,6 +1702,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(recvfrom, int, fd, void __user *, ubuf, size_t, size,
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);