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Message-ID: <20080912124405.GF8935@ghostprotocols.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:44:05 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.28] tcp_ipv6: fix use of uninitialized memory
Em Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:05:25AM +0200, Vegard Nossum escreveu:
> >From 6544c4074aa5dde2e3f4d3e02f5601c1c33b770e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:17:32 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] 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.
Humm, so this was poisoned at allocation and then when inet6_rsk_offset
was accessed it noticed, interesting, thanks!
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
- Arnaldo
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