netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] tipc: move premature initilalization of stack variables

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:13:48 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@...csson.com,
        ying.xue@...driver.com, maloy@...jonn.com,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] tipc: move premature initilalization of stack
 variables

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:10:31 -0500

> In the function tipc_rcv() we initialize a couple of stack variables
> from the message header before that same header has been validated.
> In rare cases when the arriving header is non-linar, the validation
> function itself may linearize the buffer by calling skb_may_pull(),
> while the wrongly initialized stack fields are not updated accordingly.
> 
> We fix this in this commit.
> 
> Reported-by: Matthew Wong <mwong@...usnet.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>

Applied.