linux-kernel - [PATCH] SUNRPC: Initialize source address if passed-in srcaddr is AF

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Date:	Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:58:21 -0400
From:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:	nbowler@...iptictech.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Initialize source address if passed-in srcaddr is
	AF_UNSPEC

Recently xs_bind() was changed so it can't tolerate an AF_UNSPEC
bind address; it needs a fully initialized ANYADDR.  We recently fixed
this case in xprtsock.c, but some upper layer protocols seem to assume
that it's OK to pass in an AF_UNSPEC address for the source address.
Catch that case too.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
---

Untested.

 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
index dfcab5a..fd6484b 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -2181,7 +2181,7 @@ static struct rpc_xprt *xs_setup_xprt(struct xprt_create *args,
 	new = container_of(xprt, struct sock_xprt, xprt);
 	memcpy(&xprt->addr, args->dstaddr, args->addrlen);
 	xprt->addrlen = args->addrlen;
-	if (args->srcaddr)
+	if (args->srcaddr && args->srcaddr->sa_family != AF_UNSPEC)
 		memcpy(&new->srcaddr, args->srcaddr, args->addrlen);
 	else {
 		int err;

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