Commit 78d15e82 authored Sep 12, 2008 by Vegard Nossum Committed by David S. Miller Sep 12, 2008

tcp_ipv6: fix use of uninitialized memory



inet6_rsk() is called on a struct request_sock * before we
have checked whether the socket is an ipv6 socket or a ipv6-
mapped ipv4 socket. The access that triggers this is the
inet_rsk(rsk)->inet6_rsk_offset dereference in inet6_rsk().

This is arguably not a critical error as the inet6_rsk_offset
is only used to compute a pointer which is never really used
(in the code path in question) anyway. But it might be a
latent error, so let's fix it.

Spotted by kmemcheck.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent f262b59b

net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ static struct sock * tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(struct sock sk, struct sk_buff skb,
		struct request_sock *req,
		struct dst_entry *dst)
		{
		struct inet6_request_sock *treq = inet6_rsk(req);
		struct inet6_request_sock *treq;
		struct ipv6_pinfo newnp, np = inet6_sk(sk);
		struct tcp6_sock *newtcp6sk;
		struct inet_sock *newinet;
		@@ -1350,6 +1350,7 @@ static struct sock * tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(struct sock sk, struct sk_buff skb,
		return newsk;
		}

		treq = inet6_rsk(req);
		opt = np->opt;

		if (sk_acceptq_is_full(sk))

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